Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Contents ix
4. Part I
5. Chapter One: The Rhetorical Mode of Spenser’s Narrative 3
6. Chapter Two: Narrative Materials and Stanzas of Poetry 36
7. Chapter Three: Spenser’s Poetic Language 70
8. Chapter Four: The Problem of Structure in The Faerie Queene 107
9. Part II
10. Chapter Five: Interpretation and the Sixteenth-Century Reader 137
11. Chapter Six: Spenser’s Use of Ariosto 160
12. Chapter Seven: Iconography in The Faerie Queene 200
13. Chapter Eight: Interpreting the Cave of Mammon 235
14. Part III
15. Chapter Nine: The Nature of Spenser’s Allegory 279
16. Chapter Ten: Heroism and Human Strength in Book I 334
17. Chapter Eleven: Heroic and Pastoral in Book III 370
18. Index to The Faerie Queene 407
19. General Index 411