Word: spenser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundred years ago last fortnight was born an English writer who modestly proposed to restore to strength and purity the English language, which he held had been debased by all English writers since Edmund Spenser. In his own monumental writing Charles Montagu Doughty succeeded. But grateful readers and writers of the English tongue did not crowd around to give Restorer Doughty thanks. Few of them have even read his most famed book, Travels in Arabia Deserta...
...English he called 'Victorian and Costermongery.' Forty years ago he wrote to Doctor Hogarth: 'My main intention was not so much the setting forth of personal wanderings among a people of biblical interest as the ideal endeavour to continue the older tradition of Chaucer and Spenser, resisting to my power the decadence of the English language...
Critical articles in the magazine are by Associate Professor Theodore Spenser, Hi Simons, John Finch, Morton D. Zabel, Howard Baker, and Delmore Schwartz. There are also statements about the poet by Harry Levin, instructor in English, and by Associate Professor Matthiessen. A complete review of the magazine appears on the editorial page...
David R. Matlack, Edward J. Michon, Ernest A. Mitchell, Frank D. Padgett, William C. Palson, Jr., Frank W. Reeb, Edward W. Shaw, William F. Snyder, Robert M. Solow, Joseph S. Spenser, Thomas M. Stanton, Richard N. Swift, Jack L. Torgan, Charles R. Weaver, Stephen J. Welsh, Rush E. Welter, and John R. Yoder...