Word: spenser
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their emotions; the prelude to this, Dante's Vita Nuova; the Life of St. Louis, by Joinville, the Romance of the Cid, and the Arthurian Romances. In later times the number of names really great is considerable. One might give Chaucer, the freshest and most springlike of all poets; Spenser (though with a certain hesitation). and Milton,- a little, for his real greatness was style rather than matter. Among the moderns, man a should select to begin with who ever most appeals to him, provided he choose a great author and not a coarse...
...great change, however, comes in the English department. English 6 has been revived, but is open only to seniors; 13 is a new course, and will be given in successive years with 1 and 11; Spenser and the English Bible will be studied under Professor Child; Mr. Wendell has been given English 14, which will meet once a week and study the English drama, exclusive of Shakspere; the second half year Professor Briggs will meet a course in English literature from Shakspere to Dryden, exclusive of Milton; 7 and 8 have been given a companion course, numbered 9; it will...
...complete works of Edmund Spenser in prose and verse, 100 copies, printed for private circulation only, with a new life based on original researches, has recently been printed in England. Its chief editors are announced to be Rev. A. B. Grosart, F. T. Palgrave, Prof. Ward and Prof, Child of Harvard University...
...Everett of Adams Academy says of John Fiske, the eminent expounder of Herbert Spenser (according to the Detroit Every Saturday), that while in college he once wrote an article on Mr. Spenser's theories, which, being sent to England, drew forth from the philosopher a very flattering letter of thanks to Mr. Fiske. "Consequently," said Mr. Everett, "he has muttered 'Herbert Spenser' ever since...
Another volume of Herbert Spenser's "Principles of Sociology" will soon be published...