So, apparently buoyed by the success of my 2020 Shakespeare reading project, I had a modest ambition for 2021: I would read all of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene and finish reading "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" in middle English.
I apparently thought I would read one canto per day and dispose of Spenser in 74 days, and thereafter read 79 stanzas of SGGK in 79 days, and then move on to other poetry, such as Tennyson's Idylls of the King.
Well, I did manage to read Idylls of the King in May 2021, so there's that. And I certainly got a decent start on The Faerie Queene in 2021; I chipped away at it from mid-February to late July. Then I set Spenser aside, and it was nearly a year and a half before I started again in earnest! But now, after a two-month push, I am DONE.
So my initial 74-day estimate was a little off; it took me more than 7 months over a 2.25 year period.
When I recommenced FQ, I also started up with SGGK again as well, so there is some hope that my official 2021 reading project could actually be completed during my lifetime.
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