"Literary scholars have often felt that in Books III and IV of the of the Faerie Queene Spenser became confused, indifferent, or careless; that in Books I and II he was he was in control of the structure but that in Books III and IV he was not. This intensive study, which J. Lyndon Shanley has called 'the most satisfying interpretation of the Faerie Queene, books three and four, I have read, and in one of the best of any part of the Faerie Queene,"...