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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Clara Balfour | In her general overview of the history of English literature during these centuries, she focuses especially on English poets because as she says, great poets not only give form, power and beauty to a nation's... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Swanwick | AS
declares at the outset her belief in the progressive development of the human race, and in the contribution that poetry makes to pushing on that development as well as to witnessing and recording it... |
Textual Production | Katharine S. Macquoid | The last novel by the nearly ninety-year-old KSM
, Molly Montague's Love Story, appeared at London with the National Society's Depository
. She headed it, like her first book, with a quotation from Spenser |
Textual Production | Naomi Royde-Smith | NRS
published two volumes of prose tales for children abstracted from Edmund Spenser
: Tales and Stories from Spenser's Faery Queene and Una and the Red Cross Knight, and Other Tales from Spenser's Faery Queene. |
Textual Production | Sarah Wentworth Morton | She found this story in a recent issue of the American Museum, where it was set in Canada. American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html. |
Textual Production | Marjorie Bowen | MB
recalls being influenced at an early age by her enjoyment of Tennyson
's Idylls of the King, Wilde
's Picture of Dorian Gray, the novels of Sir Walter Scott
, and Richardson |
Textual Production | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | MEB
's first publications included verse in The Beverley Recorder. A patron, John Gilby
, volunteered to underwrite the production and publication of a volume of her poetry, stipulating that the principal piece should... |
Textual Production | Lady Eleanor Butler | Sarah Ponsonby bequeathed the journals to Caroline Hamilton
, and Harriet Pigott
therefore supposed that they were written by Ponsonby
. Butler, Lady Eleanor et al. “Foreword and Editorial Materials”. The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton, edited by Eva Mary Bell, Macmillan, p. vii - viii; various pages. vii |
Textual Features | Hannah Mary Rathbone | Lady Willoughby
, the supposed author of the diary, was an actual person (born into the well-known Cecil family), who died in the year 1661. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Textual Features | Emily Lawless | The volume is suffused with lament for the plight of Ireland past and present, as in the Dirge for All Ireland. 1581. This was the second year of the brutal colonising campaign of the... |
Textual Features | Clara Reeve | |
Textual Features | Judith Cowper Madan | |
Textual Features | Anne Mozley | Wordsworth observed of her poetry anthologies in general that they mixed the contemporary with the canonical: Spenser
, Cowley
. . . stand side by side with Monckton Milnes
and Miss Barrett
. Wordsworth, John, and Anne Mozley. “Memoir”. Essays from "Blackwood", edited by F. Mozley and F. Mozley, William Blackwood and Sons, p. xii - xx. ix |
Textual Features | Helena Wells | HW
says she has more respect for the upper classes than some of our modern reformists. Wells, Helena. Letters on Subjects of Importance to the Happiness of Young Females. L. Peacock; W. Creech. 7 |
Textual Features | Caroline Norton | For epigraph she chose a quotation from her friend Sidney Herbert
, calling for better communication between different social ranks. Employing Spenser
ian stanzas (CN
listed The Faerie Queene among her favourite poems), the... |
Timeline
10 April 1579: E. K. dated the epistle to Gabriel Harvey...
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10 April 1579
E. K. dated the epistle to Gabriel Harvey
which prefaced the youthful Edmund Spenser
's cycle of eclogues, The Shepheardes Calender. It was published with this year's date, which at the time included the...
9 November 1580: At Smerwick on the Dingle peninsula in Ireland...
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9 November 1580
At Smerwick on the Dingle peninsula in Ireland the English Lord Deputy, Arthur, Lord Grey of Wilton
, ordered the massacre about 600 European mercenary soldiers who had already surrendered to him.
23 January 1590: Edmund Spenser dated (using the old-style...
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23 January 1590
Edmund Spenser
dated (using the old-style reckoning of 1589) his letter to Sir Walter Raleghexpounding his whole intention in the first three books of The Faerie Queene, which was published soon afterwards.
19 November 1594: Edmund Spenser's Amoretti (sonnets) and Epithalamium...
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19 November 1594
By about July 1596: Edmund Spenser probably finished A View of...
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By about July 1596
Edmund Spenser
probably finished A View of the Present State of Ireland, written in dialogue form, which remained unpublished until 1633.
20 May 1707: Jacob Tonson the elder signed the first of...
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20 May 1707
Jacob Tonson
the elder signed the first of two copyright agreements giving him sole right in Shakespeare
's plays.
May 1742: William Shenstone (poet and landscape gardener,...
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May 1742
William Shenstone
(poet and landscape gardener, creator of a famous ferme ornée, The Leasowes at Halesowen in Shropshire) anonymously published his supposedly Spenserian
poemThe Schoolmistress.
May 1748: Only a few months before his death, James...
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May 1748
Only a few months before his death, James Thomson
published The Castle of Indolence, an allegoricalpoem in Spenserian
stanzas, which had been about fifteen years in the making.
By April 1754: Thomas Warton published Observations on the...
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By April 1754
Thomas Warton
published Observations on the Faerie Queene of Spenser.
Texts
Spenser, Edmund. “Introduction”. The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, edited by Ernest De Selincourt et al., Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1916, p. vii - lxvii.
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, and Edmund Spenser. “The Doleful Lay of Clorinda”. Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, William Ponsonbie, 1595.
Spenser, Edmund. The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser. Editors Smith, James Cruikshank and Ernest De Selincourt, Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1916.