words, 29; limitations of his genius, 54; his precocity, 204-6 Church, the, and the State, 47; the attitude of Bacon towards, 108, 549; and of the author of Leicester's Com- monwealth, 193, 196; of Gascoigne, 229, 243; and of Spenser, 489, 548 Cobler of Canterburie, The, 168-70 "Colin," as the author, 14, 19, 23, 167, 330, 332, 365; Leicester the early patron of, 163
Colin Clout's Come Home Again, date of composition, 43, 66, 178, 350; eulogies in, inconsistent with the Complaints, 44, 178, 349; "The Ladie of the Sea," 333; "The Shepheard of the Ocean," 333; Aetion," 334; Corydon," 348; the Queen and the ladies of the Court, 349; "Amaryllis," 65, 349; 'Amyntas," 65, 66, 349 Complaints, The, publication of, 43, 159, 160
Congreve, William, class feeling, 52; precocity, 204, 207
Court, the, conditions of under Eliza-
beth, 47, 177, 501; suitors at, 47, 162; competition for power at, 395, 420, 438, 445
Crowds, Bacon's opinion that men are
more open to impressions in, 154 Cumberland, George Clifford, Earl of, in Faerie Queene, 87, 505, 506; his character, 87; dispute with the Crown as to share in the capture of the Madre de Dios, 423, 431, 432, 505 Cumberland, Margaret, Countess of, in Faerie Queene, 87; her character, 88; allusions to, 164, 349 n.
Daniel, Samuel, his claim to immor-
tality, 5 n.; pleads necessity" for writing for the stage, 9 n.; on the masque, 133 n.; A Defence of Ryme, 228, 338, 342; 'impersona- tion" of, 334 sq.; his life and circumstances, 335, 337; Mountjoy his patron, 335, 337, 343 sq.; his relations with the Countess of Pem- broke, 335, 342, 343, 347, 360; tutor to Lady Anne Clifford, 88, 335; the 347, 360;
'Delia" sonnets, 336, M. P.," 337, 347; his character as a poet, 338, 343, 344, 347; the "Letter from Octavia,"
Dante, autobiographical element in his poetry, 54; the imagination of, 151 Daphnaida, 133 n., 330
Davison, Secretary, his part in the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, 91, 92; letter on travel, 191; official form used by, 572 Declaration of the True Causes, etc., A, 174 N., 209
Defence of Poesie. See Apologie for
Desmond, Earl of, the rebellion of, 32, 36, 71, 81, 558, 563 Devonshire, Earl of. See Mountjoy Dickens, Charles, the limitations of his invention, 54, 230, 231
Discourse of English Poetrie, A, reference to the authorship of the Shepheards Calender, 5; compared with the "E. K." Glosse, 9; con- temporary rymers denounced, II; Platonic love, 16 n.; use of the term " 'simple," 142 Donne, John, his character as a poet, 49, 348; regrets publishing verse, 49: allusion to, and connection with, Essex, 64 n., 349; on private practice at the Bar, 167 n.; on the accession of King James, 439 n. Dorset, Anne, Countess of, erects a monument to Spenser, 34, 88 Drake, Sir Francis, alleged poem by, 315
Du Bellay, 203, 392
"E. K.," and Edward Kirke, 3, 14; explains his undertaking the
Glosse," 5, 13, 14; denounces contemporary “rymers,'' 7 ; manner of writing about love, 8, 18; on Platonic" love, 15; on old age, 16; on Elfes and Goblins," 22; on Homer, 25; his commentary on the Dreames, 14, 26; on the Queen, 20; no mention by of "Immerito in Ireland, 33; and "G. T.," 216. See also under Harvey Elizabeth, Queen, Irish policy of, 32, 35, 69-71; parsimony of, 32, 96, 189, 506, 549, 554, 558; her Court and government, 47; the Alençon marriage, 62, 84 n., 172, 176, 177, 185, 195; references to marriage with Leicester, 62, 172, 194, 256, 259, 275, 280 n., 474, 477; admira- tion of the Turk for, 67; letter to Henry of Navarre, 68; her relations with her favourites, 74, 75, 421-23 [see also under Essex and Ralegh]; two letters to Mountjoy, 75 n., 421 ; her position in regard to the execu- tion of Mary, Queen of Scots, 90- 92; and Leicester's marriage, 175. 176; visit to Kenilworth, 248 sq.;
Some poetical allusions to: in Faerie Queene, 59, 66, 74, 80, 90, 94, 100; extravagant eulogy of, 84 n., 178, 223, 256 sq.; deification of, 113 m., 272, 330, 334; addressed in the language of love, 332, 366, 370, 422, 475-78; the practice discussed, 58, 105, 256, 257, 448; various allusions to, 379 sq., 501 Elizabethan Age, simplicity of, 14, 222; described as iron and malitious," 48; severe penalties, 51, 240, 311; material prosperity, 164; over-sea adventure, 77 2., 300, 314- 319, 326-27, 462; piratical war- fare, 303, 431, 505; strength of men's feelings, 412 n.; Civil Service, 31; Church controversy, 47, 549; popularity of sermons, 549 n. ; Puritans, 72 n., 548 n.; allusions to the teaching in the Grammar Schools, 233, 586
Books and writers in: use of books, 46; difficulties of publica- tion, 157 n., 220, 329; absence of publicity, 4., 9, 14, 146, 262 ; press censorship, 51, 169, 176 n., 329; dangers of writing, 51, 107, 177, 358 n.; risks of a reputation for scientific inquiry, 127; advantages of writing under a great name, 188 n.; condition of professional writers and scholars, 3, 119 n., 146, 256, 336, 517
See also under Court, England, Poetry, and Stage
England, the Church of, 47, 210, 546, 548; Bacon on the union of with Scotland, 318; as The Lady of the Sea," 333 n.; drunkenness in, 286, 289-92; fashions of dress in, 290; efforts made by for the re- duction of Ireland, 344-46. See also under Elizabethan Age English, the, admiration of gravity
by, 46, 353; turbulent early his- tory of, 47, 537, 538; language monosyllabic, 226; reserve of, 387
Epithalamion, 34, 223, 386 sq. Essex, Robert Devereux, second Earl
of, alleged friendship with Spenser, 39-46; pays for his funeral, 39, 46;
his rivalry with Ralegh, 44-46, 73, 418 n., 438-41; literary assistance rendered to by Bacon, 45, 188 n.. 191, 391, 392 n.; his relations with Bacon, 46, 69, 90, 199, 395 sq., 412, 552-56; his character, 46, 395, 412, 555; in Faerie Queene, 61, 63, 64, 67-74, 95, 96, 488; pos- sibility of his marrying the Queen, 64, 391; and of succeeding to the throne, 64, 395, 439; the popularity of, 64, 395; his relations with the Queen, 44, 68, 403, 404, 422; offends her by marrying, 75, 488; the story of the ring, 88 n.; his marriage with Frances Walsingham, 95 n., 488; his 'Apology" at- tributed to Anthony Bacon, 188 n. ; and the account of Squire's conspiracy (by Francis Bacon) to him, 198; alleged reason for the charge against Lopez, 199; and Daniel's Tragedy of Philotas, 338; connection with Donne, 64 n., 349; allusions to by Shakespeare, 64 n., 437; his Irish command and Bacon's advice, 438, 550-56; Ralegh's reference to as Bothwell," 440; his appointment as Earl Marshal, 552, 553 Euphuism, 221, 294, 327
Faerie Queene, The, publication of, 43. 44, 579; written from the point of view of the Court, 47, 82, 89; length of the poem, 53: purpose of the work, 55 incongruities of, 56; alleged dream-character of, 56; in- terpretations offered, 57; character- istics of the author of, 57-60; sense of humour in, 58, 494; the nature and method of, 59, 60, 80, 89; the "general" and the "particular," 59, 60; Upton on the characters, 60; the personal element in, 60, 61, 470 sq.; reference to by Nashe, 66; Irish allusions in, 76-82, 468; the "Mutabilitie" cantos, 79-82, 492; its aristocratic standpoint, 103, 507 n.; allusions to the completion of, 385, 579; paper explanatory of the alle- gories, 470 n. ; possible dates of composition of Books I. and II., 473, 482; the religious motive in, 489; use of law terms in, 499; im- partiality, 501; Bryskett's reference to, 579, 582
The characters referred to: Alma, 97 n., 481, 482; Amoret, 74, 94, 469, 483; Arthegal, 35 n., 36, 46, 62-74, 90, 97, 135, 391, 472;
Arthur, 59, 67, 68, 90, 97, 473-82, 484, 486; Belphoebe, 59, 74 n., 389, 447, 448, 466, 483, 484 ; Blandamour, 92-94, 440 n., 468; Blatant Beast, the, 72, 486-88; Braggadochio, 62, 471, 473; Brito- mart, 63, 83, 135, 389, 391, 472, 494, and Amoret, 74 n., 94, and Scudamore, 469; Burbon, 68, 71; Calepine, 96, 487, 488; Calidore, 95, 96, 487, 488; Cleopolis, 471, 490; Continent, the, 83; Cupid, the Maske of, 98; Cynthia, 80, 370; Despetto, Decetto and Defetto, 486; Desyre, 99; Detraction, 72; Dragon, the, 61; Duessa, 72 n., 90, 92, 480; Ease, 99, 100; Fansy, 99; Florimell, 82, 85-89; Flourdelis, the Lady, 68; Fosters, the three, 83 n.; Glaucè, 494-99; Grantorto, 70-72; Guyon, 61, 470-73, 481, 482; Hope, 100; Irena, 70-72; Lady of Delight, the, 472 n.; Lee, the river, 97, 98; Marinell, 80-90, 505; Melibo, 95, 96; Mercilla, 90; Mirabella, 486 n., 500; Mona, 65; Oberon, the mightie, 96; Orgoglio, 480; Palmer, the, 61, 62; Paridell, 92-94, 468; Pastorella, 95, 96, 488; Pollantè and Lady Munera, 97; Pride, the house of, 501; Radi- gund, 97; Redcrosse Knight, the, 60, 66, 68, 470 sq., 474, 477, 489- 492; Rich Strond, the, 82, 83, 89; Satyrane, 78; Scudamore, 73-76, 94, 468, 469; Serena, 96, 486-88; Sergis, 70, 71; Spanish Armada, the, 63, 97; Talus, 71, 73, 98, 102; Timias, 46, 73, 74, 84 n., 371, 386, 448, 466, 483-88; Una, 60, 471, 474, 477, 490; Zele, 90 Fleming, Abraham, 279 n. Fowre Hymns, The, 44, 88 n., 113 n., 164, 349 n., 507
Frobisher, Sir Martin, and the North-
West Passage, 295, 297 n., 300; alleged poem by, 316; capture of the Madre de Dios, 423, 424, 425
his character and later circumstances, 242, 244-46; his church views, 243: The Steele Glas, 242, 244; verses by Ralegh, 243; The Grief of Joye, 246, 281, 282; The Tale of Hemetes, 247, 279 sq.; The Princely Pleasures at Kenelworth, 248 sq.; The Queenes Maiesties entertainment at Wood- stock, 280 n.; A Delicate Diet for daintiemouthde Droonkardes, 282-
292; Lewis and John Dyve, 283- 285; The Spoyle of Antwerpe, 282, 283; The Droomme of Doomsday, 292; Prefatory Epistle to Gilbert's Discourse, 247, 293 sq.
Genius, its instinct for concealment, 53; limitations of, 54; judicial control of, 104; feminine element in, 182; precocity of, 204 sq. Geoffrey of Monmouth and Spenser, 67, 144, 494
Gibbon, Edward, class feeling, 52 Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, A Discourse of a Discoverie, etc., to Cataia, object of, 294; account of publication of, 295 sq.; contents of, 305, 306, 310- 312; his circumstances, 295, 296, 302; his initiative in North-Western discovery, 299-301; paper as to How her Majesty might annoy the King of Spain," 302; his start for Newfoundland and fate, 304, 324; Camden on his project and character, 304, 327 n.; Peckham's Report on his voyage, 312-20, 3245q.; and the Report by Hayes, 320-24 "Golden wyre," 389
Greene, Robert, connection with Nashe, 5 n.; employed by Bancroft in the " Martin Marprelate " contro- versy, 52 n.; his Pandosto and the Winter's Tale, 96; and "Euphues," 167 n.; Harvey's account of his death, 168; on the authorship of The Cobler of Canterburie, 168, 169; the "Panther" parallel, 170; the
Peacock's feet" parallel, 286; his motto, 480 n.; a suggested allusion to his genius, 480 ". Grey de Wilton, Arthur, Lord, his Irish appointment, 31, 32; reasons for taking Spenser as his secretary, 32, 34; his administration, 35, 70, 559; his recall, 35; his action at Smerwick, etc., 35, 72, 371, 559- 563; early services under his father, 35 n., 284 n.; death, 35, 69; sonnet to in Faerie Queene, 35; alluded to Arthegal," 35 m., 36, 67, 69-73; and Bryskett, 576 sq.
Grindal, Archbishop, in Faerie Queene, 61; Bacon's eulogy of, 62; and Leicester, 173
"G. T.," 213-16, 235, 348
Hakluyt, Richard, and the Gilbert
voyage, 313, 321, 328; on the capture of the Madre de Dios, 506; and the account of the last fight of the Revenge, 506 n. Harriot, Thomas,
Harvey, Gabriel, letters between and Immerito," 2, 3, 8, 22, 26, 76, 211, 236, 473 n., 503, 591; intro- duction of Spenser by to Sidney, 2; address by E. K." to, 6; allusions by E. K." to unpublished works by, 8, 11, 23; and by Webbe, 10; his two brothers, 10, 23 n.; his Latin works, 10, 11, 23; his patron, Sir Thomas Smith, II; the Harvey- Nashe controversy, 11, 329; sudden cessation of publications by, 11, 479 n.; his Letter-book, 12, 15, 19, 22, 23, 221, 277 n., 296, 329; his intimacy with Immerito," 15, 28; as Hobbinol, 15, 28, 332; on sizars, 102; his account of Greene's death, 168; controversial satire, 169 n.; on Mother Hubberds Tale, 176; on poetry and St. John's Revelation, 211; compared by Nashe to a peacock, 286; the sonnet addressed to him by Spenser, 369, "Immerito 579; on and 44 Rosa- linde," 503; Spenser mentioned in a note in one of his books, 572. See also under Nashe
'Imitation' (dramatic), effect on character of, 146, 147
"Immerito," The Shepheards Calender published under the name of, 6; denounces contemporary "rymers,' 8; verses by, and by "E. K.,", 22; intimacy with Harvey, 15, 28; his self-esteem, 28; no mention by of Irish experience, 33, 34; early con- nection with Sidney and Leicester, 2, 3, 19, 25, 27, 31; Holinshed used by, 77; his motto, 89 n., 202; compared with "G. T.," 216; and with Gascoigne, 227; alleged pub- lication of Harvey's poems without his consent, 296; his correspondence with Harvey, 329, 503. See also under Harvey
Impersonation, 9, 9 n. Ireland, Elizabeth's policy in, 32, 35; sheriff's post in, 38; episode in Faerie Queene, 69 sq.; local allusions to in Faerie Queene, 76-82; the harp of, 81, 531; Bacon's views on the reduction of, 319, 529-32; also Daniel's, 344; and the English, 572
James, King, possible reference to in
Faerie Queene, 64; position of the leading men before and on his accession, 395, 396, 439; Bacon's habit of addressing, 448, 449, 520; Bacon's relations to, 458; his hatred of Ralegh, 465
Jonson, Ben, his account of Spenser's death, 38; "Sir John Daw," 48; narrow escape from mutilation, 51; on the allegories in Faerie Queene, 72 n., 470 n.; on Daniel, 339 n. ; on Ralegh as a writer, 460; on Bacon, 513-16, 518; and on Shake- speare, 515; in Bacon's establish- ment, 516-18
Keats, John, letters of, 362 Kilcolman, Spenser at, 36-38; de- scription of, 36 n.; poem dated from, 43, 332, 349; allusions to district of in Faerie Queene, 78, 79, 98; Ralegh's supposed visit to, 38, 332 sq., 350, 373
Kirke, Edward, and "E. K.," 3, 14, 479 n.
Knollys, Lettice, Countess of Essex and Countess of Leicester, perhaps referred to in Faerie Queene, 63; her marriage with Leicester, 175; Queen's visit to at Chartley, 356 Laneham, Robert, 248, 249, 255, 260 n., 261 sq., 479 n.
"Lee," the river, in Ireland and
Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of, as Spenser's patron, 2, 25, 27, 31, 163, 172-74, 477 [cf. 260, 275]; intended originally as the hero of Faerie Queene, 24, 62; allusions to his death, 63, 163, 174; offence given by Spenser to, 164, 172, 173, 177, 179, 180; poetical advocacy of his marriage to the Queen, 172, 259. 275, 280 n. ; his relations with Burghley, 173, 177, 180; an allusion to his marriage with the Countess of Essex, 175; and Sidney's letter to the Queen, 186; his ambitious projects and character, 67 n., 194, 197; entertains the Queen at Kenil. worth, 248; relations with Ralegh, 373, 417; allusions to in Faerie Queene, 62-64, 66, 68, 473-77, 481 Leicester's Commonwealth, 192 sq. Leicester's Ghost, 67 n., 192, 196 Lilly (Lyly) John, a parallel, 170; character as a writer, 230, 478 n. ; eulogy of the Queen, 257, 477, 478 n. London, descriptions of, 174, 490 Love and the passions, 8, 18, 99, 131, 277, 362, 387, 491, 507 Lucretius on the nature of deity, 112
Man, Bacon on, 114; "the kingdom
of," 120; Shakespeare on, 331; habit of attributing his faults to the influence of the stars, 535, 536, 590 Marot, Clément, 15, 16, 27, 203, 208, 209
"Martin Marprelate" controversy, the, 52, 487, 548
Mary, Queen of Scots, in Faerie Queene,
72 n., 90-92, 97, 472 n., 480; and Queen Elizabeth, 91, 92
Masque, the, Bacon and Daniel on, 133
Meres, Francis, 371 n., 479 n. Milton, John, and the tradition as
to Spenser's Irish service, 33; an autobiographical element in his poems, 54; connection with Spenser's Amaryllis," 65 n.; the precocity of, 204 n.; price received by for Paradise Lost, 220; correspondence in style between his poems and other writings, 416; Aubrey's life of, 418 n.
Mother Hubberds Tale, date of com- position, 43, 160, 175, 176, 178;
the attack on Burghley in, 41, 50-
52, 174, 196; and the censorship, 51, 52, 176 n.; description of the suitor in, 162; alluded to in a Catholic pamphlet, 174 n.; and by Harvey, 176; suppressed, 177; reference to the state of the clergy,
Mountjoy, Charles Blount, Lord, the Queen's attachment for, 75 n., 421 ; reduction of Ireland by, 75 n., 343- 346, 420, 438; a dedication to by Bacon, 156; patron of Daniel, 335, 337; Daniel's funeral poem on, 343; his relations with Lady Rich, 75, 346, 356; death of, 357; his dislike of Ralegh, 420 Muiopotmos, 44, 179 sq.
Munster, settlement of, 36, 38, 42, 81; rising in, 38, 565; remoteness of, 52; Sir Henry Sidney's description of, 549 n., 557, 558; Spenser's account of in the View, 556, 558; in the petition, 570
"Mutability," the sense of in Spenser, 19, 104, 133 n., 163, 174, 184, 208, 330, 492; Shakespeare on, 104, 132, 331; Bacon on, 331, 493
Nashe, Thomas, first mention of Spenser as a poet, 5 n.; the soul in the body, 18 n.; his style com- pared with that of others, 8, 12, 279 n., 288, 291, 361; the Harvey- Nashe controversy, 11, 329; em- ployed by Bancroft in the Martin Marprelate controversy, 52 n. ; on "Amyntas" and Faerie Queene, 65, 66; his complaints, 102, 360; suggested as the author of Tarleton's Newes, 168; compares Harvey to a peacock, 286; unauthorised publi- cation by of Astrophel and Stella and of Daniel's sonnets, 336, 358- 362; suggests that Harvey himself wrote the sonnet addressed to him by Spenser, 369 Nature, philosophical conception of in Faerie Queene, 80, 492; Bacon's reverence for, III; his insight into, 116, 118; his "Interpretation of,"
Norris, Sir John, in Faerie Queene, 68; dissensions with Russell in Ireland, 570 Northampton, Henry Howard, Earl of, his intrigues against Ralegh, 465 Northumberland, Henry Percy, eighth Earl of, in Faerie Queene, 93, 94; 440 n.
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