The Elfin Knight:
Book II of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene
Updated and annotated by Toby Sumpter
"Edmund Spenser (1559-99) has earned the title 'the poet's poet' because of the high poetry of his epic and because so many great poets, including Milton, Dryden, Tennyson, and Keats, cut their poetic teeth on The Faerie Queene.
The hero of Book II is Sir Guyon, the knight of Temperance. But do not let that throw you. This is not a poem about teetotalism. As C.S. Lewis puts it, The Faerie Queene' demands of us a child's love of marvels and dread of bogies, a boy's thirst for adventures, a young man's passions for physical beauty.'
Following in the wake of Roy Maynard's Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves, Toby Sumpter's notes are insightful and humorous--making this great Christian epic poem accessible for modern readers. The Elfin Knight makes an excellent choice as a homeschool or classroom text."
--Jayson Grieser, Fellow of Humanities, New Saint Andrews College
ISBN-10: 1591280524
ISBN-13: 9781591280521
Pages/Media: 288
Dimensions: 6x9
Publ.Date:Oct. 2010
Author: Toby Sumpter & Edmund Spenser
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Toby Sumpter (MA, Erskine Theological Seminary) is co-pastor of Trinity
Reformed Church in Moscow, Idaho. Sumpter also writes for the online
journal, Credenda/Agenda and can be found regularly at
havingtwolegs.blogspot.com. He and his wife Jenny and their three children
live in Moscow.
