The Faerie Queene Book 5
Edmund Spenser
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
The Fifth Book of the Faerie Queene contayning the Legende of Artegall or of Ivstice.This masterpiece was never completed, but it continues to be one of the most beautiful and important works of literature ever written. Spenser wrote it as a paean to the Virgin Queen Elizabeth, and to the golden age which he believed she had brought to England. Sponsored by Sir Walter Raleigh and commended by the foremost literary minds of his day, Spenser's book remains one of the crowning poetic achievements of the Elizabethan period. (5 hr 29 min)
Chapters
bk5_00- The Legende of Artegal - Prologue | 6:10 | Read by Brian Keith Barnes |
bk5_01 - The Legende of Artegal - Canto 01 | 15:44 | Read by Brian Keith Barnes |
bk5_02 - The Legende of Artegal - Canto 02 | 33:58 | Read by Jhiu |
bk5_03 - The Legende of Artegal - Canto 03 | 22:35 | Read by Alan Brown |
bk5_04 - The Legende of Artegal - Canto 04 | 22:33 | Read by MorganScorpion |
bk5_05 - The Legende of Artegal - Canto 05 | 31:34 | Read by Brian Keith Barnes |
bk5_06 - The Legende of Artegal - Canto 06 | 21:08 | Read by Brian Keith Barnes |
bk5_07 - The Legende of Artegal - Canto 07 | 25:00 | Read by Alan Brown |
bk5_08 - The Legende of Artegal - Canto 08 | 28:32 | Read by Jhiu |
bk5_09 - The Legende of Artegal - Canto 09 | 29:13 | Read by Alan Brown |
bk5_10 - The Legende of Artegal - Canto 10 | 18:37 | Read by Carolyn Power |
bk5_11 - The Legende of Artegal - Canto 11 | 33:13 | Read by Carolyn Power |
bk5_12 - The Legende of Artegal - Canto 12 | 22:19 | Read by Carolyn Power |
bk5_12 - The Legende of Artegal - Canto 12a | 18:57 | Read by MorganScorpion |
Reviews
One of the best books of the 2008 LibriVox version
Harumphrey
Sincere thanks are due to all the intrepid readers of the 2008 LibriVox "Faerie Queene," and that certainly goes for the mainstays of the project, Morgan Scorpion and Alan Brown. For Book 5, however, they were joined by three much more rarely heard, but to my mind even more capable, narrators: Jhiu, Carolyn Power, and--one of the very best readers to contribute to the project--Brian Keith Barnes. Book 5 is almost everybody's least favorite book of "The Faerie Queene," but it is very well served here. Along with Book I, this is the best the 2008 LibriVox "Faerie Queene" has to offer. It is still worth listening to even in the wake of Thomas A. Copeland's wonderful 2014 recording for LibriVox of the entire poem.