Abstract
Customarily, modern critics discuss the Garden of Adonis in terms of Books III and IV of The Faerie Queene; but considering Spenser's willingness to publish the first three books of his poem as a separate unit, we may assume that the narrative, the allegory, and the philosophy of each of those three books are sufficiently self-contained to stand alone. And this means that the Garden of Adonis episode would stand in relation to the original concluding situation of Book III as the House of Holinesse stands to the final situation of Book I, or the Castle of Alma to the destruction of Acrasia's Bower.
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