The Faerie Queene · English Literature

Which fragmented section of the poem, published posthumously, deals with a Titaness challenging the gods for control over the universe?

  1. The Cantos of Mutabilitie
  2. The Shepheardes Calender
  3. Amoretti and Epithalamion
  4. The Teares of the Muses
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Correct answer: The Cantos of Mutabilitie

The Mutabilitie Cantos — two complete cantos and a fragment of a third — were published posthumously and were intended for a later, unfinished book of The Faerie Queene. They stage a cosmic trial in which the Titaness Mutabilitie challenges Jove and Nature for sovereignty over the universe.

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