
HoP 423 - Heaven-Bred Poesy - Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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The Fairy Queen by Charles Spencer
Spencer may have wanted to encourage a straightforwardly moralistic reading of the work. But he does not really dispel the tension between the romantic epic form in his religious message. The Red Cross Knight encounters a figure representing Islam, named Sanzfwa, meaning without faith. Another opponent is a monstrous representative of Popery whose poisonous bile is vomit full of books and papers.
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