The Poetical Works of Edmund SpenserH. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1926 - 736 pages |
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Page viii
... nature . But it does not seem to have affected the avidity of his reading , and it may well be that his bodily infirmities , like Herbert's , betrayed him to a lingering book , ' and preserved him from the distractions of the world . He ...
... nature . But it does not seem to have affected the avidity of his reading , and it may well be that his bodily infirmities , like Herbert's , betrayed him to a lingering book , ' and preserved him from the distractions of the world . He ...
Page xvi
... are meant to portray actual persons has been disputed ; but it is clear enough that they prefigure two conflicting elements in the poet's own nature ; the practical - eager for fame , and inclined to xvi INTRODUCTION .
... are meant to portray actual persons has been disputed ; but it is clear enough that they prefigure two conflicting elements in the poet's own nature ; the practical - eager for fame , and inclined to xvi INTRODUCTION .
Page xx
... nature and convention , of deep moral earnestness and tender delicacy of feeling , is , in spite of all that it has borrowed , a world of Spenser's own . It lies along the high - road that leads him to Faery land . 1 Though the ...
... nature and convention , of deep moral earnestness and tender delicacy of feeling , is , in spite of all that it has borrowed , a world of Spenser's own . It lies along the high - road that leads him to Faery land . 1 Though the ...
Page xxi
... natural poetic utterance , and while he acted as arbiter between the theories of Harvey and the London Areopagus ... nature he threw himself into the new life that was opening out before him . The success he had already won seemed to ...
... natural poetic utterance , and while he acted as arbiter between the theories of Harvey and the London Areopagus ... nature he threw himself into the new life that was opening out before him . The success he had already won seemed to ...
Page xxix
... nature , that he collected his volume of Complaints , in which he voices his despair at the neglect of the arts and the degeneracy of the times , and continually attributes them to the sinister influence of Burghley . Among these poems ...
... nature , that he collected his volume of Complaints , in which he voices his despair at the neglect of the arts and the degeneracy of the times , and continually attributes them to the sinister influence of Burghley . Among these poems ...
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