Monarch Notes, January 1st, 1963
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 The Atmosphere Of The Faerie Queene. What sort of a world is that of The Faerie Queene? - The first impression is that of an endless tapestry of picture metaphors, replete with beautiful wooded landscapes, with springs and rivers and shaded clearings away from the sun, where nymphs and goddesses can casually be met. It is also a world of fantastic, nightmarish and hideous monsters, of barbarous cruelties, of the clash of steel on steel, with blood oozing on the green meadow, limbs and heads lopped off, of people racing about hysterically, pursuing or pursued. All myths...
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