The Faerie Queene Book 5


Read by LibriVox Volunteers

(4.5 stars; 2 reviews)

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


(4 stars)

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.