My deepest apologies all for the delay in getting this voice to you all, and especially for the long listen as we wrap up Book 2.
Our last few cantos take us from the House of Temperance through to the Bower of Bliss, from Arthur’s deep dive into British history, to the overlap of images of Circe and Eve in the Garden of Eden. We wrap up the book with Guyon’s capture of Acrasia and reveal in the foreign or othering images that Spenser utilises to create a distinct English identity.
In May we will begin our journey of Chastity in Book 3. We are provided with many lustful images of wanton women in Book 2, so it is natural to transition to the emblem of chastity, the women knight Britomart, in Book 3.
