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How many books of The Faerie Queene did Edmund Spenser complete?
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Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the collection of Pembroke College, Cambridge, England.
Edmund Spenser originally conceived his epic poem, The Faerie Queene, to consist of 12 books. However, he completed only six books during his lifetime. In addition to these six books, there exists a surviving fragment of a projected seventh book, which is known as the "Mutabilitie Cantos" and was published posthumously in 1609.123