Just the fact the world has a first-class man of letters who can give us such a rich survey of English verse!

Virgin on the Allegorical. What an excellent teacher

Thank you for another thoughtful lecture upload. The historical context here is particularly rich, the reformation being so foundational to the inception of modernity. I can't help but contrast this kind of capstone to chivalric romances with the Quixote, and how both demeanours (Spenser's and Cervantes'a) toward this tradition make for a kind of dialectic that resolves towards the Enlightenment around a century later (or so it's interesting to imagine). One particular element of this contrast that is fascinating is how the more ingenuous relation to chivalric material, Spenser's, corresponds with the fledgling Anglicanism, while the irony-rich Quixote comes stems from a devout Catholic background in Cervantes: there's a kind of inversion, where the former is compensating for the necessity of fabricating a new social relation to doctrine, recapitulating on the conventions with so much fidelity, while the latter is compensating for the early onset of modernity against the entrenched antiquated -- both with chivalric romances as their bedrock.

Thank you Dr Walker, for sharing your knowledge of these marvellous works.

Thank you so much for this! I am an english literature student and I did not understand quite well TFQ.
Thank you!

The best description of iambic pentameter I've ever heard. 10/10 no notes!

I thought this was a scott the woz video for a second. But will give this a watch!

I'm a new poet who recently just started posting my poetry on YouTube. Finding your channel is like stumbling upon a goldmine! Now I have one more youtuber to bing, learn from, and fine tune my craft to. 👌

A highly appealing video to me. Didn't realize I was going to get totally drawn into it. Watched it half through, went to sleep for the night, and returned to it early next morning. The book was in a course I took in the early 70's under a Marxist professor, but I remember almost nothing. I just re-purchased the book edited by A.C. Hamilton that was highly praised. I have a strong interest in re-reading this book. I feel the symbolism in this book can be extended past the historical religious controversies to a more general artistic quest for purpose and meaning. I expect this read for me will be slow and pleasantly laborious. Best wishes.

ThankU!! How did I miss TFQ! Camille Paglia is rhapsodic over it

17:00 Beautiful, just lovely listening to your appreciation of the poetry and explaining the process.

I have my finals at uni in 2 weeks and this is a lifesaver ! thank youuu!!!

I'm reading "The Faerie Queen" now. What a trip! Thank you, Dr. Walker.

Thank you for your lecture I am learning so much  
Often like to be in the strange world of Morte d'Arthur but reading the Faerie Queene for the first time, cannot get over how it seems like Japanese anime!

I always like videos about the fairy queene. I do not know about the visionary thing, but it is a good epic poem.

I have looked at tFQ, and don't have the time right now, but I wanted to get the gist of what it's about, and this video was exactly what I was looking for

Thanks for this lecture. I highly recommend Richard Danson Brown's The Art of the Faerie Queen for close analysis of Spenser's poetic techniques.

This is a superlative disquisition, and I will aver that I have immensely enjoyed the content of your channel, and shall soak it up, even if you leave the official university environs.

These sorts of deep and learned readings are what save the world IMHO from the trite and ephemeral, and from the oceanic immersion in the visual.

While certainly there is a place too for meditation on great art, 99.999% of the visual that ensnares the modern mind, as with so many so-called books, is anything but lapidary in the Ozymandian sense.  Yet the soul pines after the lapidary, that which should be cut gem-like into the eternal stone of time, and loses patience with the shifting sands.

Thank you so much for this! I got a copy of Spencer’s Faerie Queene but never knew where to start it!

this video in a way illustrates the method of the historiographer discoursing of affairs orderly- Spenser's life, contemporaries, critics, encyclopedia even before ever we thrusteth into the middest of the poetry- the stanza appearing not til minute 17:10 - but ought we not always to begin and end with the poetry itself - also as you teach it showing a passage, asking what can be made of it, not saying beforehand this is an example of that...