Have any of you read Spencer's The Faerie Queen? I read Pope's Rape of the Locke a few weeks ago but it was over too quickly and I'm looking to scratch that heroic couplet itch. What's a good edition?
>>8138971
>The Faerie Queen
>heroic couplet itch
you will be disappointed, anon, it's not written with heroic couplets, it's written with spenserian stanza
if you want heroic couplets read... pale fire
Pope's Homer if the form's really important to you.
if you want to loosen it up a bit, you could read fourteeners too, which brings in Chapman's Homer.
Keats' Lamia is pretty strict, come to think of it. There's a BBC 4 radio play of it too, if the form really isn't important.
But yeah, not Spencer.
>>8138996
>Spencer
faerie queene does not have heroic couplets but you should read it anyway cause it's excellent
>>8138971
>Spencer
>>8139003
lol yeah I didn't even capitalise the nouns how will spenser forgive me
>>8139008
Seeke ye forgiveness from our Lord.
