 | Simon Brittan - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 242 pages
...gealous opinions and misconstructions, as also for your better light in reading thereof, (being so by you commanded,) to discover unto you the general intention...fashioned, without expressing of any particular purposes or by-accidents therein occasioned. Darkness and light are traditional exegetical terms: spiritual ignorance... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 230 pages
...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 a gentleman 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... | |
 | Joan Fitzpatrick - History - 2004 - 198 pages
...misconstructions, as also for your better light in reading therof, (being so by you commanded,) to discouer vnto you the general intention and meaning, which in the...fashioned, without expressing of any particular purposes or by-accidents therein occasioned. (Spenser 1977, 737) Colin Clout's Come Home Againe, "a post-1590 revision... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Daniel Juan Gil - 2006 - 206 pages
...Queene; in the 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... | |
 | John S. Pendergast - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 216 pages
...final causes, 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... | |
 | J. B. Lethbridge - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 404 pages
...concept of holiness. The most stunning gesture in The Faerie Queene occurs when Spenser writes that "the generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline,"31 and then he begins that program of virtuous fashioning by saying... | |
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