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Currently Playing: A Renaissance Scholar on Why Spenser Still Matters ft. ⁨@therenaissanceacademic⁩

To join our course on Spenser's The Faerie Queene, sign up here: https://versedcommunity.mn.co/ Check out Cait's YouTube Channel: @therenaissanceacademic And her Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/cait_murphyhurrell Substack: https://substack.com/@caitmurphyhurrell 0:00 Introduction 1:08 Cait’s research on The Faerie Queene 5:46 Marlowe, Shakespeare, Spenser 9:30 An unfinished epic 13:06 Images, poetry, and C. S. Lewis 21:46 Why read Spenser today? 29:16 Reading the classics creatively 35:22 Course format and lectures 40:38 Closing remarks