Richard Green Moulton

“ The application of Story to thinking is most familiar to us in the form of Allegory. A colossal monument of this is seen in Spenser's Faerie Queene, where a whole system (Aristotelian) of Ethics is embodied in a narrative of Romantic Chivalry. But the appreciation of this depends largely upon a clear grasp of Spenser's original treatment of allegory—in itself a matter of the utmost literary importance—especially, the ever changing relation of the allegory to the other interests of the poem. ”