Throughout the centuries, writing an epic is considered the main qualification for being a master poet for European writers and many writers attempt to set an example in this genre over of their life. Unfortunately, most of these writers fail and are buried in the dusty shelves of literature, while the lives of other writers could not be long enough to complete “such divine duty that rests on the shoulders of poets. (Sydney 47). Above all, when we examine English literature, up to the first existence of national epic works, English writers feel the lack of epic writer figures such as Homer of the Greeks or Virgil of the Latins in their literature and this forces them to focus on epic genre writing and this need leads them to complain more frequently about this absence. For example, Edmund Spenser states in one of his pastorals, The Shepheardes Calender, that if a poet wants to be a master in poetry, he must abandon writing the basic forms of poetry such as the pastoral and must write an epic then his own. /his name will be written in the sky. Spenser deeply believed that it was necessary to construct an English Christian epic. The reason for this may be found in Sir Philip, An Apologie for Poetrie. Sydney's desire is to demonstrate that the art of poetry is not a waste of time for Elizabethan society. By legitimizing poetry as a true art form, he is also confirming the English language's need for a great national epic. On the other hand, Spenser himself manages to fulfill that calling with one of the best examples of epic poetry, through his incomplete masterpiece, The Faerie Queene, for English literature. Unfortunately his life did not allow him to complete the entire work as he intended, he is able to write in...... middle of the paper ......tion he is using epithets renamings, mainly , of characters from stock phrases. These happen quite a bit in The Faerie Queene. The Knight of the Red Cross is among others called "the (corpulent) Champion", "the valiant Elf", "the Elfin knight" while Una is often referred to as "that Ladie Milde" or "faithful Lady". Another epic convention is the statement of the theme. It is found at the beginning of every canto in Spenser's epic poem: the canto begins with a four-line phrase, briefly stating what is about to happen. To conclude, the basic conventions of an epic poem can be satisfied by The Faerie Queene. Therefore, the poem, regardless of whether it has romantic characteristics, ultimately remains one of the finest examples of English literature of the epic genre and with its success Edmund Spenser will be remembered as one of the best poets among Homer, Virgil or Tosso..