 | English poetry - 1990 - 272 pages
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 | Jacques Carré - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 232 pages
...that his design is to colour with 'historical! fiction' the 'generall end' of the whole work, which is 'to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline.' The fiction thus becomes fused with the idea of fashioning, joining together each of the twin concepts... | |
 | Gordon Teskey - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 220 pages
...This is what Spenser means in the "Letter to Raleigh" when he says that the "general! end" of his book is "to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." By drawing the reader into its system, the poem "fashions" an intellectual habit. In the Enlightenment,... | |
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The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline... 
