 | Kevin Pask - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 238 pages
...sad, sober cheer. Poetry is to be religion made vocal" (435). The stated purpose of The Faerie Queene, "to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline" (407), marks Spenser's own investment in this reformation of poetic authority. In the longer term,... | |
 | Simon Hillson - Social Science - 1996 - 762 pages
...four authors are the "antique Poets historical" being followed in this present work whose general end is "to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline."14 Something like the distinction between prosopographia and prosopopoeia is seen in the... | |
 | Jeffrey Masten - Drama - 1997 - 244 pages
...Brathwait's, in gentlemen's conduct books; The Faerie Queene, for example, the "generall end [of which] is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline," devotes a book to the subject. 7 Other treatments - for example, Bacon's "Of Friendship" and Florio's... | |
 | Peter G. Platt - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 304 pages
...genre affords the best means of achieving his end: in this "plausible and pleasing" form he aspires "to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." He hopes to have an ethical effect even though fiction tends to be read "rather for variety of matter,... | |
 | Marshall Grossman - History - 1998 - 378 pages
...indicates that Spenser's text begins (like lago) with the pursuit of an end: "the general1 end . . . of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline" (p. 167), but it also (infinitely) defers the implementation of this program by launching the phantom... | |
 | Jennifer Robin Goodman - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 258 pages
...philosophers, Lodowick Bryskett and Piccolomini. In fact, the virtues Spenser tackled first in his project "to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline" had found a place in earlier "mirrors of knighthood" as well. Alain Chartier's fifteenth-century "Breviaire... | |
 | Penry Williams - History - 1998 - 650 pages
...'Letter to Ralegh', appended to The Faerie Quee-ne, claimed that he had written with two ends in view: 'to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline', and to praise Elizabeth, for 'in that Faery Queene I meane glory in my general intention, but in my... | |
 | Richard Keller Simon - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 174 pages
...college examinations. He wanted to change his audience by delighting and instructing, and so did Lucas. "The generall end therefore of all the booke is to...or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline," Spenser wrote in his prefatory letter to The Faerie Queene. He tells us there that he selected historical... | |
 | Wolfgang Capito, William Roy - Humor - 1999 - 334 pages
...Protestant ideology contained within and integral to the romance form. Spenser says it best himself: 'The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline: Which for that I conceived shoulde be most pausible and pleasing, being... | |
 | Richard Danson Brown - Poetry - 1999 - 308 pages
...Spenser explains that his poem is 'a continued Allegory, or darke conceit' in which 'The general! end ... is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline'. 67 This 'end' is obtained through an 'historical! fiction', based around Prince Arthur in the manner... | |
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