OBSERVATIONS

ON

THE FAIRY QUEEN

OF

SPENSER.

BY THOMAS WARTON, A. M.

FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, AND PROFESSOR OF POETRY IN THE
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

A NEW EDITION.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

Printed by C. Stower, Paternoster-row ;

FOR R. DUTTON, GRACECHURCH STREET; AND THOMAS OSTELL,

AVE-MARIA LANE.

Library.

.190.

From ne Library of

PROF. B. W GURNEY,

14487,16

Intey Fill

2

Seat I. pl.

On Stars and Conduct of Faerie Queen...for Seet. II $25,

On Spencers ductations from Ol Roman

Use and abuse javaux
Mysh. Cory and History.
Seat IV... 157

On Spencer's Stanza Versificaten

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and Lang
Seat V... 188

Spurshaucer
penser's Incitation from

Jeet V. p272
Milations

Sest VII.

312

215-13

ON

THE FAIRY QUEEN

OF

SPENSER.

SECT I.

Of the plan and conduct of the Fairy Queen.

WHEN the works of Homer and of Aristotle began to be restored and studied in Italy, when the genuine and uncorrupted sources of ancient poetry and ancient criticism were opened, and every species of literature at last emerged from the depths of Gothic ignorance and barbarity, it might have been expected, that, instead of the romantic manner manner of poetical composi