Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) The Faerie Queene "[...] the seed-bed, wherein all English fiction is latent...[it] has an entire literature potentiating inside.
The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser. The Faerie Queene Booke I: The Legende of the Knight of the Red Crosse, or of Holinesse Booke II: The Legend.