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Author(s): Not Applicable, na
Reader(s): Moffatt, John
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Great Epics and Tales
Catalogue No: NA337712
Barcode: 9789626343777
Distribution Note(s):
Re-issue
Re-issue
Release Date: 05/2006
SPENSER, E. : Faerie Queene (The) (Abridged)
This remarkable poem, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I, was Spenser’s finest achievement: the first epic poem in modern English, The Faerie Queene combines dramatic narratives of chivalrous adventure with exquisite and picturesque episodes of pageantry. At the same time, Spenser is expounding a deeply-felt allegory of the eternal struggle between Truth and Error…
Tracklist
Disc 1
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1 | The Faerie Queene - Dedication | 04:04 |
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2 | The First Book: Canto I Verse I - The Red Cross Knight | 08:02 |
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3 | Verse XIV – ‘But full of fire and greedy hardiment’ | 07:26 |
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4 | Verse XXVIII – ‘Then mounted he upon his Steede againe’ | 10:47 |
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5 | Verse XLVII – ‘Thus, well instructed, to their worke they haste;’ | 05:15 |
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6 | Canto II Verse I - The Lady Fidessa | 06:38 |
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7 | Verse XII – ‘But he, the knight whose semblaunt he did beare’ | 04:15 |
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8 | Verse XX – ‘The Lady, when she saw her champion fall’ | 05:33 |
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9 | Verse XXX – ‘Faire seemely pleasaunce each to other makes’ | 09:16 |
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10 | Canto III Verse I – The Abduction of Una | 05:47 |
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11 | Verse X – ‘Long she thus traveiled through deserts wyde’ | 08:24 |
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12 | Verse XXVI – ‘Ere long he came where Una traveiled slow’ | 04:06 |
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Disc 2
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1 | Verse XXXIII - ‘They had not ridden far, when they might see…’ | 06:37 |
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2 | Canto IX Verse XXXIII – The Cave of Despair | 05:41 |
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3 | Verse XLII ‘Is not his deed, whetever thing is donne’ | 07:27 |
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4 | Canto XI Verse I – The fight with the dragon and its sequel | 07:58 |
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5 | Verse XV - ‘So dreadfully he towards him did pass’ | 09:22 |
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6 | Verse XXXIII - ‘The morrow next gan earely to appear’ | 09:02 |
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7 | Verse L – ‘When gentle Una saw the second call’ | 03:27 |
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8 | Canto XII Verse II – ‘Scarsely had Phoebus in the glooming East’ | 06:10 |
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9 | Verse XXI – ‘Then forth he called that his daughter fayre’ | 04:05 |
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10 | The Second Book: Canto VII Verse XXI – The Cave of Mammon | 05:54 |
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11 | Verse XXXI – ‘They forward passe; ne Guyon yet spoke word’ | 01:32 |
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12 | Canto IX Verse XLVII – The Powers of the Mind | 06:16 |
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13 | Canto XII Verse LXIX – The Bower of Bliss | 06:09 |
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Disc 3
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1 | Verse LXXIX – The young man, sleeping by her, seemed to be’ | 05:05 |
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2 | The Third Book Canto VII Verse XXX – ‘The Garden of Adonis’ | 05:16 |
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3 | Verse XXXIX – ‘Great enimy to it, and to all the rest’ | 05:23 |
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4 | Canto XII Verse I – The Masque of Cupid | 05:05 |
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5 | Verse X – ‘Next after him went Doubt, who was yclad’ | 04:59 |
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6 | Verse XIX – ‘After all these there marcht a most faire Dame’ | 04:45 |
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7 | The Fourth Book: Canto VI Verse I - Scudamour, Arthegall and Britomart | 06:17 |
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8 | Verse XI – ‘But Arthegall, beholding his mischaunce’ | 06:58 |
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9 | Verse XXIV – ‘Which when Scudamour, who now abrayd’ | 10:08 |
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10 | The Fifth Book Canto II Verse XXX – Arthegall and the Giant | 07:49 |
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11 | Verse XLIV – ‘Therewith the Giant much abashed sayd’ | 05:49 |
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12 | The Seventh Book: Canto VII – The Masque of the Seasons and Months | 09:30 |
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13 | Canto VIII – Nature’s reply to Mutability | 02:21 |
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Total Playing Time: 03:58:38