Tag Archives: Edmund Spenser

Reporting on My Lenten Observance

By Robin Bates | Published: May 14, 2022

For my Lenten observance, I read “Faerie Queene,” Book I–in which (at one point) Lenten observance gets taken to an extreme.

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My Lenten Reading: The Faerie Queene

By Robin Bates | Published: March 5, 2022

For this year’s Lenten reading I will be taking on Spenser’s “Faerie Queene.”

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Spenser Would Understand QAnon

By Robin Bates | Published: January 23, 2022

In “Faerie Queene,” Redcrosse Knight must contend with the monster Errour. Think of her as rightwing conspiracy theories.

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Morgan Le Faye through the Ages

By Robin Bates | Published: March 10, 2019

Monday Last week I finished teaching a short “Wizards and Enchantresses” course for Sewanee’s Lifelong Learning program and thoroughly enjoyed myself. Having already talked about my class on Merlin (see here, here, and here), today I share what I had to say about Morgan Le Faye and her successors. With Morgan, we looked at how […]

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Love, the Lesson which the Lord Us Taught

By Robin Bates | Published: April 1, 2018

Edmund Spenser joyfully welcomes in Easter, proclaiming “Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.”

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June Weddings, Elizabethan Style

By Robin Bates | Published: June 28, 2010

Francois Boucher, mid 18th-century  As June is the month for weddings (Julia and I were married June 8), I will be looking at a wedding poem and a wedding play this week: Edmund Spenser’s gorgeous Epithalamion and Shakespeare’s magical Midsummer Night’s Dream. Writing about his own upcoming wedding, Spenser is so exuberant that he could […]

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