Reader(s): Moffatt, John
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Great Epics and Tales
Catalogue No: NA337712
Barcode: 9789626343777
Distribution Note(s):
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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Moffatt, John (Reader)
1The Faerie Queene - Dedication04:04
Moffatt, John (Reader)
2The First Book: Canto I Verse I - The Red Cross Knight08:02
Moffatt, John (Reader)
3Verse XIV – ‘But full of fire and greedy hardiment’07:26
Moffatt, John (Reader)
4Verse XXVIII – ‘Then mounted he upon his Steede againe’10:47
Moffatt, John (Reader)
5Verse XLVII – ‘Thus, well instructed, to their worke they haste;’05:15
Moffatt, John (Reader)
6Canto II Verse I - The Lady Fidessa06:38
Moffatt, John (Reader)
7Verse XII – ‘But he, the knight whose semblaunt he did beare’04:15
Moffatt, John (Reader)
8Verse XX – ‘The Lady, when she saw her champion fall’05:33
Moffatt, John (Reader)
9Verse XXX – ‘Faire seemely pleasaunce each to other makes’09:16
Moffatt, John (Reader)
10Canto III Verse I – The Abduction of Una05:47
Moffatt, John (Reader)
11Verse X – ‘Long she thus traveiled through deserts wyde’08:24
Moffatt, John (Reader)
12Verse XXVI – ‘Ere long he came where Una traveiled slow’04:06
Moffatt, John (Reader)
Disc 2
1Verse XXXIII - ‘They had not ridden far, when they might see…’06:37
Moffatt, John (Reader)
2Canto IX Verse XXXIII – The Cave of Despair05:41
Moffatt, John (Reader)
3Verse XLII ‘Is not his deed, whetever thing is donne’07:27
Moffatt, John (Reader)
4Canto XI Verse I – The fight with the dragon and its sequel07:58
Moffatt, John (Reader)
5Verse XV - ‘So dreadfully he towards him did pass’09:22
Moffatt, John (Reader)
6Verse XXXIII - ‘The morrow next gan earely to appear’09:02
Moffatt, John (Reader)
7Verse L – ‘When gentle Una saw the second call’03:27
Moffatt, John (Reader)
8Canto XII Verse II – ‘Scarsely had Phoebus in the glooming East’06:10
Moffatt, John (Reader)
9Verse XXI – ‘Then forth he called that his daughter fayre’04:05
Moffatt, John (Reader)
10The Second Book: Canto VII Verse XXI – The Cave of Mammon05:54
Moffatt, John (Reader)
11Verse XXXI – ‘They forward passe; ne Guyon yet spoke word’01:32
Moffatt, John (Reader)
12Canto IX Verse XLVII – The Powers of the Mind06:16
Moffatt, John (Reader)
13Canto XII Verse LXIX – The Bower of Bliss06:09
Moffatt, John (Reader)
Disc 3
1Verse LXXIX – The young man, sleeping by her, seemed to be’05:05
Moffatt, John (Reader)
2The Third Book Canto VII Verse XXX – ‘The Garden of Adonis’05:16
Moffatt, John (Reader)
3Verse XXXIX – ‘Great enimy to it, and to all the rest’05:23
Moffatt, John (Reader)
4Canto XII Verse I – The Masque of Cupid05:05
Moffatt, John (Reader)
5Verse X – ‘Next after him went Doubt, who was yclad’04:59
Moffatt, John (Reader)
6Verse XIX – ‘After all these there marcht a most faire Dame’04:45
Moffatt, John (Reader)
7The Fourth Book: Canto VI Verse I - Scudamour, Arthegall and Britomart06:17
Moffatt, John (Reader)
8Verse XI – ‘But Arthegall, beholding his mischaunce’06:58
Moffatt, John (Reader)
9Verse XXIV – ‘Which when Scudamour, who now abrayd’10:08
Moffatt, John (Reader)
10The Fifth Book Canto II Verse XXX – Arthegall and the Giant07:49
Moffatt, John (Reader)
11Verse XLIV – ‘Therewith the Giant much abashed sayd’05:49
Moffatt, John (Reader)
12The Seventh Book: Canto VII – The Masque of the Seasons and Months09:30
Moffatt, John (Reader)
13Canto VIII – Nature’s reply to Mutability02:21
Moffatt, John (Reader)

Total Playing Time: 03:58:38