Stories from the Faerie Queene Edmund Spenser 9781142307851 Books
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This is wonderful. Similar to Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare or Children's Homer by Colum, Mary Macleod's story telling ability will likely entice a youth to seek out the original.Product details
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Stories from the Faerie Queene Edmund Spenser 9781142307851 Books Reviews
(I am reviewing the 1909 "Stories from the Faerie Queene" by Lawrence H. Dawson with color plates by Gertude Demain Hammond.)
This version of "Stories from the Faerie Queene" vies for completeness in its coverage of Spenser's vast narrative poem with the adaptations by Mary Macleod with A. G. Walker (also titled "Stories from the Faerie Queene," 1897) and Emily Underdown with Frank C. Papé ("The Gateway to Spenser," 1910). What sets it apart, first, is that, even more than Underdown and Papé, Dawson and Hammond at times include material one would expect to be passed over in a children's version. Thus Dawson, like Underdown, includes the episode of the savages who strip Serena naked for sacrifice on their pagan altar; but, in comparison with her, he positively revels in the lurid details, making much more, for instance, of the fact that these savages are also cannibals who intend to feast on their victim's dainty remains. As for Hammond, her painting of the sorceress/femme fatale Acrasia depicts her in a diaphanous gown that leaves one of her breasts completely visible to direct frontal view, something I never expected to see in a children's book of this vintage.
Perhaps this sounds as if the book would be more inviting for adults than it is suitable for children. I'm not so sure. While Dawson offers a thorough and serviceable recounting of most of the poem's events, he can be long-winded, and his syntax too anticlimactic for what has happened to register in the reader's imagination with any urgency or immediacy. Nor do Hammond's sixteen color plates do much to remedy this. Walker provides over eighty exquisitely delineated and shaded pen and ink illustrations for Macleod's text, while Papé offers more than one hundred vividly-etched black-and-white vignettes, as well as his own set of sixteen color plates, for Underdown's. But the real contrast between their work on the one hand and Hammond's on the other is this Walker and Papé generally bring to life moments of real import to Spenser's characters, putting them in carefully researched, fully imagined settings and costumes, and, above all, enduing them with eloquent facial expressions and body language that inevitably invite the reader's own emotional involvement. Hammond not only has fewer opportunities to achieve this end, but takes less advantage of them she is less inclined to zero in on such key narrative moments to begin with, and, even when she does, her attempts at vividly realizing another time and place or evoking any real emotional connection strike me as comparatively lackluster.
Of the many, many Victorian and Edwardian retellings of "The Faerie Queene," few attempted to cover virtually the entire poem, and few were adorned with color illustrations. Dawson and Hammond make a praiseworthy contribution, and it may be that I have overstated their limitations. But if you are in the Used Books market for only one children's version of Spenser from this period, I think that either Underdown or Macleod would be a better choice.
NOTE Latterly, I see that Spenser's lamia-like personification of Error is shown completely bare-breasted (apart from her reptilian scales!) in one of H. J. Ford's illustrations for Andrew Lang's 1905 "The Red Romance Book." Maybe I just haven't seen enough Edwardian children's books.
It took a little while to get into it, but if you want a good background before reading Spenser himself, this is an excellent choice. It is well written and very entertaining.
This is wonderful. Similar to Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare or Children's Homer by Colum, Mary Macleod's story telling ability will likely entice a youth to seek out the original.
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