Over the centuries, writing an epic has been considered the major qualification for being a master poet for European writers and many writers attempt to set an example in this genre throughout their lives. . Unfortunately, a large proportion of these writers fail and bury themselves in the dusty shelves of literature, while the lives of some other writers could not be long enough to fulfill "the divine duty incumbent upon poets." (Sydney 47). Particularly, when we go through English literature, back 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 compels them focus on epic genre writing and this need leads them to complain about this absence more frequently. For example, Edmund Spenser states in one of his pastorals, The Shepheardes Calender, that if a poet wants to become a master of poetry, he must abandon writing basic forms of poetry such as the pastoral and must write an epic and then its /his name will be written in the sky. Spenser deeply believed in the need to construct an English Christian epic. The reason for this is found in Sir Philip, An Apology for Poetrie. Sydney wants to prove that the art of poetry is not a waste of time for Elizabethan society. By legitimizing poetry as a true art form, it also validates the English language's need for a great national epic. On the other hand, Spenser himself manages to answer such a call with one of the best examples of epic poetry, through his incomplete masterpiece, The Faerie Queene, in English literature. Unfortunately, his life did not allow him to complete the entire work because his intentions, he is able to write in the middle of paper ......tion uses epithets to rename, mainly, characters by common expressions . This happens a lot in The Faerie Queene. The Knight of the Red Cross is, among other things, called "the Champion (fat)", "the valiant Elf", "the elven knight" while Una is often called "this Milde Lady" or "Faithful Lady". Another epic convention is the statement of theme. This appears at the beginning of each song of Spenser's epic poem: the song begins with a four-line phrase, briefly indicating what is about to happen. To conclude, the basic conventions of an epic poem can be fulfilled by The Faerie Queene. Thus, the poem, regardless of whether it bears novelistic characteristics, ultimately remains one of the fairest examples of English literature in the epic genre and, with its success, Edmund Spenser will be remembered as one of the best poets among Homer, Virgil or Tosso..