... for a hidden meaning to objects in his epic. Later in the letter, Spenser went on to tell that each of the twelve books that he intended to write would symbolize one virtue. Then combined as a whole, they would represent a truly noble person. However, only six of the twelve were completed. "Each book of The Faerie Queene has as its centre a hero or heroine whose task is to ... learn a particular virtue by facing, falling before but ultimately discovering how to master, the specific vices which beset it" (Evans 143). The second book portrays the virtue of Temperance through the knight Sir...

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