Spenser’s exposition of courtesy in book VI of ‘The Faerie Queene’.
In 1843 Macaulay, with one of those mistakes that so cheer the student of that infallible dogmatist, proclaimed that one unpardonable fault, the fault of tediousness, pervades the whole of the ‘Faerie Queene’. We become sick of cardinal virtues and deadly sins, and long for the society of plain men...
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McGill University
1964
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| Online Access: | http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=115494 |
| Summary: | In 1843 Macaulay, with one of those mistakes that so cheer the student of that infallible dogmatist, proclaimed that one unpardonable fault, the fault of tediousness, pervades the whole of the ‘Faerie Queene’. We become sick of cardinal virtues and deadly sins, and long for the society of plain men and women. Of the persons who read the first canto, not one in ten reaches the end of the first book, and not one in a hundred perseveres to the end of the poem. Very few and very wary are those who are in at the death of the Blatant Beast. |
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