| Emilia Bazan - Fiction - 1993 - 172 pages
...in a fashion analogous to Caxton's Prologue, Spenser specifies that "The generall end" of his book "is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline" (LR). 16 He declares that he is following "all the antique Poets historical!, first Homere, who in... | |
| Simon Hillson - Social Science - 1996 - 762 pages
...four authors are the "antique Poets historical" being followed in this present work whose general end is "to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline."14 Something like the distinction between prosopographia and prosopopoeia is seen in the... | |
| Kevin Pask - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 238 pages
...sad, sober cheer. Poetry is to be religion made vocal" (435). The stated purpose of The Faerie Queene, "to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline" (407), marks Spenser's own investment in this reformation of poetic authority. In the longer term,... | |
| Jeffrey Masten - Drama - 1997 - 244 pages
...Brathwait's, in gentlemen's conduct books; The Faerie Queene, for example, the "generall end [of which] is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline," devotes a book to the subject. 7 Other treatments - for example, Bacon's "Of Friendship" and Florio's... | |
| Peter G. Platt - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 304 pages
...genre affords the best means of achieving his end: in this "plausible and pleasing" form he aspires "to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." He hopes to have an ethical effect even though fiction tends to be read "rather for variety of matter,... | |
| Marshall Grossman - History - 1998 - 378 pages
...to Ralegh indicates that Spenser's text begins (like lago) with the pursuit of an end: "the general1 end . . . of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman...or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline" (p. 167), but it also (infinitely) defers the implementation of this program by launching the phantom... | |
| Jennifer Robin Goodman - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 258 pages
...philosophers, Lodowick Bryskett and Piccolomini. In fact, the virtues Spenser tackled first in his project "to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline" had found a place in earlier "mirrors of knighthood" as well. Alain Chartier's fifteenth-century "Breviaire... | |
| Penry Williams - History - 1998 - 650 pages
...'Letter to Ralegh', appended to The Faerie Quee-ne, claimed that he had written with two ends in view: 'to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline', and to praise Elizabeth, for 'in that Faery Queene I meane glory in my general intention, but in my... | |
| Richard Keller Simon - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 174 pages
...to change his audience by delighting and instructing, and so did Lucas. "The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline," Spenser wrote in his prefatory letter to The Faerie Queene. He tells us there that he selected historical... | |
| Wolfgang Capito, William Roy - Humor - 1999 - 334 pages
...within and integral to the romance form. Spenser says it best himself: 'The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline: Which for that I conceived shoulde be most pausible and pleasing, being... | |
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