Spenser's letter

As a personal opinion, the real intentions of Spenser to write about King Arthur in his Faery Queen are not so clear enough. But in the letter he tried to excuse himself for a misunderstood happed with his piece of writing.

This is it called an allegory because it tries to say us something that is not implicit in the text and that is that he tried to make a parody of the Queen that is implicit in the text, inherent, written in between lines.

The characteristics that he is trying to emphasize through his different characters are holinesses, temperance, and chastity. He writes the letter to explain his intentions because he was “misunderstood” or well understood in his intentions of writing; at the end, he tried to make a parody of the queen, and he was caught up, at the end he said that he wasn’t a historiographer, he was just a writer who tried to share an history… but we are smart enough to realize the real intention of it.