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Well, I've just finished a nice chunk of paper writing, maybe half of it. It's still 7 fucking AM, goddamnit. 1500-2000 more words to do tomorrow, yay! It's shit like this:
One notable characteristic of Spensers Arthur is that he is a Prince, not yet a King. The sense then is that most of the deeds in the Arthurian chronicles occur ahead of The Faerie Queen. Spenser plays with this concept in the scene where Arthur and Guyon come to a library in the House of Temperance in Canto IX of Book II. From this library Arthur picks up a book titled Briton Moniments, and the contents of Briton Moniments form nearly the whole of Canto X. The book chronicles Briton kings / From Brute to Uthers rayne,(II.x.intro), although Spenser stops to specifically link Elizabeth to the canto: the famous auncestries / Of my most dreaded Soueraigne I recount, / By which all earthly Princes she doth farre surmount. After tromping through an entire history of English kings, the book very abruptly ends with After him Vther, which Pendragon hight, / Succeeding, as if th'Authour selfe could not at least attend / to finish it. The joke, of course, is that the author cant finish it, because Arthur had not yet written that history, a fact that half-offends and half-pleases him. This canto provides a clue as to Spensers historical and mythological intentions for Arthur, and experiments with the poem's chronological place in the canon.
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