Attitudes toward love in Spenser.

It is the purpose of this thesis to examine Edmund Spenser's attitudes toward the concept of 'love' and to observe this concept especially as it appears in the third and fourth books of ‘The Faerie Queene’. Before turning to these two books, however, it is important to survey the entire poem in the light of this concept and to recognize that Spenser's ‘Faerie Queene’ is a romantic epic, whose sustaining theme is the search of a noble and virtuous knight for the love of a beautiful lady, the search of Prince Arthur for the Gloriana of his dream-vision