Memory and Poetry > Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
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Spenser's Depiction of Eumnestes's Library
Edmund Spenser’s epic The Faerie Queene features an allegorical depiction of memory as a disorganized library of worm-eaten texts, overseen by a decrepit librarian, Eumnestes (“good memory” and his assistant Amanestes (“recall”), at once illustrating and parodying contemporary understandings of memory.