 | David Loewenstein, Janel M. Mueller - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 1064 pages
...general! end therefore of all the book', wrote Spenser in his prefatory letter to the 1590 edition, 'is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline.'5* The Faerie Queene is an openly didactic poem, yet nothing demonstrates so well the old... | |
 | Susanne Woods - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 236 pages
...blazing and defining the national virtue. Spenser declares the "general! end" of The Faerie Queene to be "to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline," with "noble person" gender neutral. ("A Letter of the Authors ... to ... Sir Walter Ralegh" [usually... | |
 | Michael Hattaway - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 800 pages
...the manner of the humanist education-of-princes tradition: The generall end therefore of all the book is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline: Which for that I conceived should be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historicall... | |
 | Robert Matz - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 206 pages
...The poet as Medina The "generall end" of The Faerie Queene, Spenser writes in the letter to Ralegh, is to "fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline."1 Given the multiple definitions of aristocratic conduct available to Spenser, however,... | |
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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... 
