The Fairy Queen is Spenser’s masterpiece. It has been called anemic, a medieval romance, as well as a romantic epic.
It has the prominent features both of a romance and an epic. Its hero is Prince Arthur celebrated alike in folklore and legend and having the force of reality for 16th century England The treatment of the subject is in the grand style suitable for an epic, the language, too is dignified and sublime. Homeric similes have been profusely used to exalt the imagination of the readers and enlarge the range of the epic.