Allegorical poem · 1633

The Purple Island

or, The Isle of Man

by Phineas Fletcher

The body of man allegorised as an island, its anatomy described in Spenserian-derived stanzas, and the war of the virtues and vices for it in the last cantos.

Contents · 12 parts

• Canto Iabout 420 lines
• Canto IIabout 320 lines
• Canto IIIabout 240 lines
• Canto IVabout 230 lines
• Canto Vabout 500 lines
• Canto VIabout 540 lines
• Canto VIIabout 600 lines
• Canto VIIIabout 410 lines
• Canto IXabout 350 lines
• Canto Xabout 300 lines
• Canto XIabout 350 lines
• Canto XIIabout 620 lines

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