 | 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... | |
 | Simon Brittan - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 242 pages
...of contemporary politics. But there are further designs: 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 shoulde be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historicall... | |
 | Elizabeth Spiller - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 232 pages
...historical one, it does allow us to take seriously the fictive presumption that the end of the book is to "fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." "Noble person" is perhaps a broader category than "gentleman," but it is not necessarily one that includes... | |
 | Jessica Wolfe - History - 2004 - 326 pages
...mortal flesh and the debilities of a human soul, Spenser's Talus complicates The Faerie Queene's project to fashion a "gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline," for his inhuman constitution and his barbarity reveal the potentially dehumanizing effects of that... | |
 | Hugh Roberts - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 549 pages
...borrowed stanzaic form. The Revolt, like The Fairie Queene, is a romance.'1 Spenser writes his famous poem "to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." Shelley writes his to "awaken the feelings, so the reader should see the beauty of true virtue, and... | |
 | Richard W. Barber - History - 2005 - 220 pages
...Walter Raleigh 'expounding his whole intention' he writes: The generall end therefore of this book is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline: Which for that I conceived 158 should be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historicall... | |
 | Richard A. McCabe - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2005 - 332 pages
...established in Ariosto and Tasso but ingeniously adapted to a crusade far closer to home. To attempt 'to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline' in an Irish context was to confront a people who were 'all Papistes by theire profession but in the... | |
 | John S. Pendergast - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 216 pages
...both of them defined by the court and courtly rhetoric. He writes first, 'The general end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." Later Spenser makes it clear that the true final cause is Queen Elizabeth: "In that Faery Queene I... | |
 | Daniel Juan Gil - 2006 - 206 pages
...epic's prefatory letter to Sir Walter Raleigh, Spenser famously claims that "the general end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." 1 But if The Faerie Queene is a conduct manual, then it is a very strange one for, as a genre, conduct... | |
 | Christopher Burlinson - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 286 pages
...of The Faerie Queene. Spenser declares in the letter, of course, that his 'generall end' in the book is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline: Which for that I conceiued shoulde be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historicall... | |
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