Allegorical poem · 1748

The Castle of Indolence: An Allegorical Poem

Written in imitation of Spenser

by James Thomson

Thomson's Spenserian allegory of a wizard's enchanted castle of sloth and the knight of arts and industry who overthrows it.

Contents · 2 parts

• Canto Iabout 700 lines
• Canto IIabout 730 lines

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