When Edmund Spenser began his second installment of The Faerie Queene – books four through six, that is, after he’d published the first three – he took issue with some readers, including a few high up in Queen Elizabeth’s court, who had criticized him for writing too much about love. Youth didn’t need to get any more fired up than they would already be…
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