Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves: Book 1 of Edmund Spenser's the Faerie Queene - Edmund Spenser

Despite all of his acknowledged greatness, almost no one reads Spenser any more. Roy Maynard takes the first book of The Faerie Queene, exploring the concept of Holiness with the character of the Redcross Knight, and makes Spenser accessible again. He does this not by dumbing it down, but by deftly modernizing the spelling, explaining the obscurities in clever asides, and cuing the reader towards the right response. Dr. Gene Edward Veith