poem leads naturally to a workable interpretation of the structure which can be seen through a careful analysis of the book in light of her ideas.^ In this interpretation, the narrator-poet is the hero of Book Four, questing after order, friendship, and concord in a seemingly chaotic world....
wrote to Sir Robert Cecil that Walter Quinn, a poet later to enjoy a successful career at the courts of James and Charles I, was ‘answering Spenser’s book, whereat the king is offended’.3The work, assuming it was ever completed, has not survived. ...