| Summary: | The article focuses on the epic poem "The Faerie Queene," by Edmund Spenser, an English poet. Spenser seeks to call forth his "Faerie Queene" in his invocation, the very term embodying the mutual interplay of the vocative and the vocational, the validating of the poetic vocation through nomination. Spenser's equivocational invocation is also the first of six "proems" to the six completed books of "The Faerie Queene." Despite Spenser's readiness to merge the vocative and the vocational, the sixth book of "The Faerie Queene," does not provide a favorable backdrop for a scene of nomination. The narrative of book 6 is the least allegorical of all the books of "The Faerie Queene."
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