Recently bought a copy of this book and found myself preferring to read the lines outloud and found this archive of oral recordings; I am so glad to see this resource because I am a strong believer to have the classics read outloud for additional appreciation.

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Looking for an audiobook to help you make your way into the vast, forbidding, alien, archaic literary forest of "The Faerie Queene"? Start here. There are now two complete versions of the poem on LibriVox, as well as a complete commercial version and a four-hour selection from Naxos. Of these, this original LibriVox version, read by a disparate assortment of volunteers, is not going to be your best bet for getting through all 35,000 lines (fine though some of it certainly is), but it will get you off to a splendid start. For Spenser's first book, Graham Williams sets off by reading the Proem and Canto One (and later Cantos Four and Five), and no other performer of "The Faerie Queene" takes such patient, painstaking care with pace, pronunciation, and emphasis in an effort to help unprepared newcomers understand just what the heck the poet is talking about. It is true that, befuddled by the Elizabethan use of "i" for "j," Williams repeatedly misreads "Jove" as "love" (he finally catches himself and splices in a correction in Canto Five), but no narrator of "The Faerie Queene" is working harder to make sure that YOU can follow what is happening. Several other readers of this first LibriVox version are nearly as good, and Thomas A. Copeland's LibriVox recording is wonderful all the way through, but I wish Graham Williams had been able to perform every last word of "The Faerrie Queene."

I have not been this greatful in a long time. This resource has practically saved my life in English Lit. Thank you so much for what you do!