An
imitation
of an incident in the _Seven Champions_ in which a winged
serpent attempts to swallow St.
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1
406. A GOODLY TREE. Cf. _Genesis_, ii, 9, and _Revelation_, xxii, 2.
409. OVER ALL WERE RED, everywhere were spoken of.
414. Cf. _Genesis_, iii, 2. Adam and Eve were expelled from the garden lest
they should eat and live forever.
434. DEADLY MADE, a creature of death, i.e. hell-born.
469.
An
imitation
of an incident in the _Seven Champions_ in which a winged
serpent attempts to swallow St.
George; i, 1.
477. AND BACK RETYRD, and as it was withdrawn. A Gallicism.
490. WHICH SHE MISDEEM'D, in which she was mistaken. Una feared that the
dragon was not dead.
QUESTIONS AND TOPICS
(Canto XI)
1. Describe the three days' fight between the Knight and the Dragon. 2.
What advantages does each gain? 3. Study the Dragon as a type of the
conventional monster of romance, contrasting his brutal nature with the
intellectuality and strategy of the Knight. 4. Study the battle as an
allegory of the victory of mind over matter, of virtue over vice, of
Protestantism over Romanism.
