Word: spenser
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...19th century writers. One question was to "show by an analysis of the content, style or diction of three of the following passages in what ways they are characteristic of their authors or of the times in which they were written." The passages were taken from William Langland, Edmund Spenser, Samuel Johnson, Charles Lamb, Lord Byron...
...Elizabethan era and the period immediately succeeding it supplied the subjects for the second division. Spenser, Lyly, Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Donne were the authors reviewed...
...examination consisted of five quotations from English authors of different periods. The student was to analyze the content, style, and diction of three of the passages, telling why they were characteristic of their authors and the times in which they were written. The quotations were taken from Langland, Spenser, Samuel Johnson, Charles Lamb, and Byron...
POETS have an art. There must be an art that poets have. Milton, Spenser, Keats were poets, and had an art of poetry; but Pope had an art of poetry more than the art of poetry of Milton or the art of poetry of Keas, yet Milton and Keats were more poets than Pope. Question: Is an art of poetry necessary to poetry? (An art implies conscious knowledge and choice of what is art and what is not art.) Answer: Walt had no art of poetry and Walt was a poet...
...last week, at Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, Mass.). The young ladies performed a pageant adapted from The Faerie Queen,* that poetic conceit of a "sweet wit and pretty invention" which young Edmund Spenser wrote to flatter Queen Elizabeth while he was helping to pacify her province of Ireland. Miss Lorraine Keck galloped right nobly as the Red Cross Knight to rescue pretty Helen Howard (Una) from the unspeakable machinations of Ivy Trace (Archimago) and her vicious minions. "Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound," the college musicians rendering appropriate strains from Meyerbeer, Gounod, Arens, Liszt or Wagner...