 | 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... | |
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The general! end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline... 
