CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Edinburgh: 100, PRINCES STREET New York: G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS Bombay and Calcutta: MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD. Toronto: J. M. DENT AND SONS, LTD. Tokyo: THE MARUZEN-KABUSHIKI-KAISHA All rights reserved THE FAERIE QUEENE BOOK II Edited by LILIAN WINSTANLEY, M.A. Sometime Fellow of the Victoria University of Manchester; Cambridge: at the University Press 1914 PREFACE OR valuable help in preparing the following edition I should like to express my indebtedness to the Modern Language Association of America, particularly the essays Spenser's Imitations of Ariosto, by R. E. Neill Dodge, and Spenser's Lost Works, by Philo M. Buck. I have also, as my references will show, freely employed Miss C. A. Harper's monograph on The Sources of the British Chronicle History in Spenser's Faerie Queene. There are many problems still remaining in Spenserian scholarship, but I hope my edition may serve as a genuine help towards elucidating a few; the essay on Spenser and Aristotle is original, and will I trust be found of interest to Spenserian scholars generally while the investigation of the sources of Book II is much more full than can be found elsewhere. I wish also to thank my friend Dr Herford for advice and the loan of books. THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF WALES, ABERYSTWYTH, L. W. |