Hello friends. I’ve been listening to The Faerie Queene lately. Can’t say I recommend it. It’s very, very long, and as I wrote earlier, I find its world to be curiously empty, even for a romance. Like in Gawain and the Green Knight, the action starts off at a big feast—there’s no big feasts in The Faerie Queene. There are no children, few families, litt…
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