 | Jon A. Quitslund - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 406 pages
...next chapter and subsequently. chapter three The Poet as Magus and Viator 'The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline.' In this familiar statement and throughout 'A Letter of the Authors,' the poet emphasizes that his subject... | |
 | Quotations - 2001 - 838 pages
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 | Kristen Guest - Social Science - 2001 - 234 pages
...that destruction, Spenser thus found an ideal metaphor for the total renunciation of lust necessary "to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." NOTES 1. Faerie Queene quotations come from AC Hamilton's edition (London: Longman, 1977). 2. Waldo... | |
 | Pilar Hidalgo - Feminist literatuurkritiek - 2001 - 168 pages
...his study (in a letter to Sir Walter Ralegh, Spenser had defined the purpose of The Fairie Queene as "to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline") (l69). Given the complexity and scope of Spenser's work, the critic selects one episode (the destruction... | |
 | Andrew Hadfield - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 302 pages
...and stature. In The Faerie Queene he presumes to school the community of his social superiors in how 'to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline' ('A Letter of the Authors'), but Spenser himself came from modest, non-gentle stock. His Westminster... | |
 | Judith Owens - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 204 pages
..."lewd deeds." What must be especially galling, given that Spenser's avowed aim in The Faerie Queene is to "fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline" (Letter to Ralegh, 737), is the bardic appropriation of "praises which are proper unto virtue itself."... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 230 pages
...the problem of what course 1 In the letter to Raleigh explaining the plan of his book Spenser wrote: 'The general! end ... of all the booke is to fashion...or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline. . . I labour to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in... | |
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