I am too finding this to be a difficult reading. On a literary level, the density of the text renders me pretty incapable of enjoying Spenser’s usage of the English language. Spenser is clearly a master of the poetic form, but I’m finding it difficult to dig at all into these pleasantries. Having said this, part of my difficulties stem from my inexperience in reading epic poems from this time period. Indeed, I often need to spend a great deal of time to figure out what is going on in the plot of our average class sonnet – with poetry of this length and of this density, establishing and maintaining the narrative arc of the story is, for me, a success in and of itself. Tl;dr I’m finding The Faerie Queene hard to read as an English student because I’m having a hard enough time trying to maintain an understanding of the plot. I feel like any literary analysis I attempt to offer on this epic is bound to fall short. I wish I could offer you some help, but I’m struggling to find an entry point myself.