Virginia Woolf on The Faerie Queene
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“The Faery Queen, it is said, has never been read to the end.”
Virginia Woolf ironically advises against experiencing Spenser's *The Faerie Queene* directly, suggesting a detached approach to appreciate its essence.
“The first essential is, of course, not to read The Faery Queen.”
“I am reading The Faery Queen—with delight. [...] I can't think out what I mean about conception: the idea behind F.Q. How to express a kind of natural transition from state to state. And the air of natural beauty.”