Word: spenser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...democracy he was almost as remote as if he had died with his contemporaries. That he is a great man, few educated citizens would deny. But fewer still could tell why they believe him such, any more than they could justify the reputations which poets have given to Spenser, musicians to Bach, scientists to Einstein. At 90 Elihu Root remains the prime U. S. example of the statesman's statesman...
...Spenser and the Table Round", by C. B. Millican is the eighth volume in Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature Queen Elizabeth and all the Tudors were so much interested in their Welsh descent, and all that it implied, that it was almost inevitable for Spenser to use the Arthurian legend in a poem which glorified his sovereign on the basis of national legend. During her reign Arthurian interests were abundant, and those interests were abundant, and those interested in the backgrounds and sources of English poetry will find little-known treasures of British folk-lore and myth...
POETRY - John Masefield - Macmillan John Collings Squire once defined poetry as the writings of Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, et al. In the present essay, lately (Oct. 15) delivered as a lecture at the Queen's Hall in London, John Mase field follows much the same track, defines poetry by quoting it. He is less nationalistic than Editor Squire; Shakespeare, Dante, Aeschylus and Homer are Poetry to him. His poetic license having been conferred on him by royal appointment, Laureate Masefield does not hesitate to use it. Specimens: Poetry "is best in lands of vintage and in those sunny years which...
...existing complete first edition collections of Walter Scott, a set of Shakespeare formerly belonging to Abraham Lincoln, some rare editions of Edmund Spenser's works, and a specially printed standard Book of Common Prayer are now on exhibition in the upper Treasure Room of Widener Library...
...volumes of Spenser, donated partly by the family of W. A. White '63, in the memory of whose son the greater part of the Dunster House library was given, were printed in the very early part of the 17th century...