Question: Carol Kaske states that Book I of Spenser’s The Faerie Queene ‘presents a mutually enriching amalgam of discourses’. Explain what these discourses are and critically explore the manner in which they relate to one another.
..if [a poet] wished to be counted respectable, and to separate himself from the crowd of foolish or licentious rimers, he must intend distinctly, not merely to interest, but to instruct, by his new and deep conceits. It was under the influence of this persuasion that Spenser laid down the plan of Faerie Queene. It was, so he proposed to himself, to be a work ...