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Excerpt from Selections From Spenser's the Faerie Queene Edmund Spenser, greatest of the Elizabethan poets except Shakspere, was the earliest of that astonishing number of men of genius who made Queen Elizabeth's reign famous in literature. During his lifetime England came to a knowledge of her power on the sea, and her opportunities in the new world. In literature, also, a spirit of national pride and enterprise, as well as awakened curiosity, led Englishmen to master the native literature of France and Italy, which in turn had been stimulated by Italy's new knowledge of the classics, and to pour these intellectual conquests into English literature through translations and imitations. The effect was to excite men's imaginations, and to give to books a vitality for the average man such as they have never had before or since. This awakening of interest in human life, and in books as the storehouses of that life, extended throughout Europe, and is known as the Renaissance. The period of the Renaissance was a transition, during which medićval thought became modern. In English literature almost all the steps in this change are to be found within the limits of Queen Elizabeth's reign. For this reason, some poets whose lives practically coincided in point of time, differed widely in the character of their writings, according as their genius was in sympathy with the old, vanishing world of thought, or with the newer outlook. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Selections from Spenser's the Faerie Queene (Classic Reprint)
• Author: John Erskine
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 468
• EAN: 9781332068371
• ISBN: 9781332068371
• ID: 09813302
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Weight: 621 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. July 2015

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