Spenser's World of Glass: A Reading of The Faerie Queene

Spencer's World of Glass: A Reading of *The Faerie Queene presents Kathleen Williams’s luminous reappraisal of Spenser as not merely a painter of sumptuous scenes but a rigorous maker of worlds. Refusing the tired cliché that Spenser’s epic is “a poem that nobody reads,” Williams shows how its apparent luxuriance serves a profoundly architectonic purpose: the poem generates its own coherent universe, where romance wandering and moral design interlock. Knights such as Red Crosse, Guyon, and ...