Assess Edmund Spenser as a pictorial artist with special reference to the excerpts fromThe Faerie Queene.

Assess Edmund Spenser as a pictorial artist with special reference to the excerpts fromThe Faerie Queene.

The Faerie Queene is, in fact, a picture gallery, and Spenser, the poet-painter, has given in it marvelous scenes, palaces caves, fights and journeys that can suitably match any work of a good painter. Spenser, as a word-painter, ranks matchless in the realm of poetry. Going through The Faerie Queene, one has the unmistakable impression of passing through an enchanted landscape, in which there is a dreamlike succession of pageants and dissolving views of forests, lakes, caves and palaces.

One feels almost spell-bound in the midst of such a pageantry. With its pictorial charms we are bound to endorse the judgment of Campbell, who called Spenser 'Rubens of the poets', for Spenser does have some of the qualities of that great artist.

The Faerie Queene, is rich in imagery. His images here are varied and colored. He has drawn pictures of landscapes, palaces, courts and caves, with a length of description and a wealth of brilliance. The pictures of nature and landscape are exquisitely beautiful and attractive. In the Canto 1, Book I, Spenser has presented a very realistic picture of the clouds of gnats pestering a gentle shepherd in the evening:

As gentle shepheard in sweete eventide, When ruddy Phebus gins to walke in west, High on an hill, his flocke vewen wide, Markes which doe byte their hasty supper best; A cloud of cumbrous. gnattes doe him molest, striving to infixe their feeble stings, That from their noyance he no where can rest, But with his clownish hands their tender wings He brusheth oft, and oft cloth mar their murmurings...........................................................................................................................................

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