The Faerie Queene (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Spenser, Edmund) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Faerie Queene Ages developed in what was after all a very limited class of men and women, a taste for allegory; but the great national dramas killed allegory, and this beneficent result was really involved in the invention of printing and the consequent widening of the reading public, as well as in the recovery from classical times of better literary models. When Spenser decided, against Gabriel Harvey´s advice, to abandon the writing of comedies and to continue the composition of The Faerie Queene, he probably made no mistake, so far as concerned his own genius and the world´s profit; but he unwittingly took his hand from the latch of the gate opening into the future. The gate he opened and entered admitted him into the past; but his good genius led him along a path that speedily emerged into the enchanted meads and vales of Faery land. Shakespeare, on the other hand, without Spenser´s advantages of training and connections, but perhaps profiting from his predecessor´s choice, opened the gate of the future. He too at times strayed into Faeryland, but never for long. Hence it is that Shakespeare continues to make an increasingly triumphant progress down the highway of time, while Spenser pursues his enchanted wanderings. It would be rash to undertake to determine which fate is the more enviable. It is just as easy to account for the interest taken in Spenser by scholars as to account for the devotion of his admirers and the comparative neglect of the large public. He was the first poet of sustained eminence produced in England for nearly two centuries after Chaucer´s death. He was the first poet to profit in full measure from the Renaissance, from the great Italian masters and from their less successful but still important French followers, from the labors of Wyatt and Surrey, and from the admirable but not sufficiently esteemed beginnings made by Sackville. He added to the rich color and melody of Southern poetry not merely the "high seriousness" and philosophic depth of the best Greek classics, but the profound spiritual sincerity and the sense for the mysterious and the symbolic characteristic of the Teutonic genius. He was in many respects a marvellously full and ripe product of the Renaissance, but he was also a product of the Protestant Reformation, yet at the same time an exponent of many of the finest ideals of the Middle Ages. In him cohere to a remarkable degree the interest attaching to the survivor and that attaching to the pioneer. When in addition to these facts we remember that Spenser was an important figure in the most brilliant and picturesque age of English history and literature, that he was the contemporary of Sidney and the predecessor of Marlowe and Shakespeare, that he was as clearly, although not so eminently, supreme in narrative, idyllic, philosophical, and loftily lyrical poetry as Shakespeare was in the drama, and that he was the master of an important group of seventeenth-century poets, including the brothers Fletcher and William Browne and culminating in Milton, we should be prepared to wonder not that so much scholarly study has been devoted to Spenser and his works, but that he has not attracted an even larger number of editors and critics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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