And the obliging young woman looked up encyclopedias and finally handed Melvale an illustrated copy of Spenser's "faerie Queene."
"The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories"
Charles Weathers Bump
Yet the artificial supernatural agents of Ariosto and the bloodless types in the faerie Queene were held to be the truest creations of imagination.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
She believed that to treat a child with generous confidence invoked generosity and truthfulness, and what was better than all the rest, she did not talk down to her children, but rather drew them up to her own mental and moral level; and interlarded stories from Spenser's faerie Queen and the Scriptures with stories of the kind and noble deeds of real people around us.
"Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School"
Elizabeth P. Peabody