Hi Raisa,

Thanks for bringing that question up – I’m having a lot of difficulty with The Faerie Queene as well. I’m still working on finding a specific part that I want to respond to, but something really technical that helped me was reading parts of it out loud. Maybe it doesn’t work for everyone (and it certainly is too much to read everything out loud), but reading the more dense stanzas out loud personally helped me in a lot of ways. First, it forced me to slow down, which heightened my awareness of Spenser’s many references and imagery. Second – perhaps because that culture was still very rooted in oral tradition? – it somehow helped me to make better sense of the language/text.

I don’t know if this will help, but good luck!