Name:- Hetal Dabhi
Paper no:-1
Assignment
Spenser’s Major Work
About Spenser:- Life ----( Of Spenser’s early life and parentage we know little, except that he was born in East Smithfield , near the Tower of London and was poor . His education began at the Merchant Tailor’s ‘School of London’ and was continued in Cambridge , Where as a poor sizar and fag for wealthy students he earned a scant living, here in the glorious world that only a poor scholar knows how to create for himself he read the classics, made acquaintance with the great Italian poets, and wrote numberless little poems of his own. Though Chaucer was his beloved master, his ambition was not to rival the -Canterbury Tales- , but rather to express the dream of English chivalry , much as Aristotle had done for Italy in ‘ Orlando Furioso’ After leaving Cambridge (1576) Spenser went to the north of England , on some unknown work or quest . Here his chief occupation was to fail in love and to record his melancholy over the lost Rosalind in the ‘ Shepherd’s Calendar ‘ upon his friend Harvey’s advice he came to London , bringing his poems; and here he met Leicester , then at the height of royal favor and the latter took him to live at Leicester house. Here he finished the ‘Shepherd’s Calendar’ and here he met Sidney and all the queen’s favourites. The court was full of intrigues , lying and flattery , and Spenser’s opinion of his own uncomfortable position is best expressed in a few lines from “Mother Hubbard’s Tale”
“ Full Little knowest thou, that has not tried,
What hell it is , in suing long to bide :
To lose good days, that might be better spent;
To waste long nights in pensive discontent ;
To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares;
To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs;
To fawn, to crouch , to want, to ride, to run,
To spend, to give, to want, to be undone.”
In 1580, through Leicester’s influence, Spenser, who was utterly weary of his dependent position, was made secretary to Lord Grey, the queen’s deputy in Ireland, and the third period of his life began. He accompanied his chief through one campaign of savage brutality in putting down an irish rebellion, and bee confiscated from Earl Desmond, one of the irish leaders . His life here, where according to the terms of his grant he must reside as an English settler, he must reside as an English settler, he regarded as lonely exile.
*Spenser’s Works-*
‘The Faery Queen’ is the great work upon which the poet’s fame chiefly rests. The original plan of the poem included twenty-four books, each of which was to recount the adventure and triumph of a knight who represent sented a moral virtue. Spenser’s purpose , as indicated in a letter to Raleigh which introduces the poem, is as follows:
To pourtaict in Arthure , before he was king , the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private Morall Vertues, as Aristotle hath devised; which is the purpose of these first twelve books: which W. J.Long finde to be well accepted, I may be perhaps encouraged to frame the other part of polloticke vertues in his person, after that hee came to be king.
Each of the
Virtues appears as a knight, fighting his opposing Vice and the poem tells the story of the opposing vise ,and the poem tells the story of the conflicts. It is therefore purely allegorical, not only in its personified virtues but also in its representation of life as a sruggle between good and evil. In its srong moral elements the poem differs radically from ‘Oelando Furioso’ upon which it was modelled. Spenser completed only six books. Celebrating Holiness , temperance, Chasticy , Friendship , Justice and Courtesy. We have also a fragment of the seventh, treating of constancy ; but the rest of this book was not written ,or else was list in the fire at kilolman . The first three books are by far the best ; and judging by the way the interest lags and the allegory geows incomprehensible , it is perhaps as well for Spenser’s reputation that the other eighteenth books remaind a dream.
Argument of The Faery Queen.-->
From the introductory latter we learn that the hero visits the queen’s court in fairy land , while she is holding a twelve days festival . one each day some distred person appears unexpectedly tells a woful story of dragons, of enchantresses, or of distressed beuty or virtue, and ask for a champion to rights the wrong and to let the oppressed go free. Sometimes a knight volunteers or begs for the dangerous mission; again the duty is assigned by the queen; and the journeys and adventures these knights are the objects of reprasentive Holiness and the lady una, representivereligioun. Srugl between virtue and faithone of the virtue and faith on the one hand , and sin and heresy on the other. The second books tells the story of Sir Guyon, or Temperance ; the third of Bristomartis , representing Chastity; the fourth , fifth, and sixth, of Cambel and Triamond (Friensheep) Artegall and sir Calidore. Spencer’s plan was a very elastic one and he filled up the measure of his narrative with everything that caught his fancy- historical events and personages under allegorical masks , beautiful ladies , chivalrous knights, giants , monsters , dragons, sirens enchanters, and adventures enough to stock a liberty of fiction . If you read Homer or Virgil, you know his subject in the first srong line; Homer or Virgil , you know his subject in the first srong line; if you read caedmo’s parapharase or Milton’s epic, the introduction gives you the theme; but Spensor’s great poem with the exception of a single line in the prologue, “ Fierce warres and fathfull loves shall moralize my song –gives hardliy a hint of what is commimg.
As to the meaning of the allegorical figures , one is generally in doubt . In the first three books the shadowy Faery Queen sometimes represents the glory of God and sometimes Elizabeth. The Redcross Knight is Sidney , the model Englishmen . Arthur , who always appears to rescue the oppressed, is Leicester , which is another outrageous flattery. Una is sometimes religion and sometimes the protestant Church; while Duessa represents Mary Queen of Scots ,or general Catholicism . In the last three books Elizabeth appears again as Mercilla; Henry-4 of France as Bourbon ; the war in the Netherland as s story of Lady Belge; Raleigh as Timias ; the earls of Northumberland and Westmoreland as Blandamour and pridell; and so on through the wide range of Northumberland and westoreland so on through the wide range of contemporary characters and events , till the allegory becomes as difficult to follow as the second part of Gothe’s Faust.
Poetical Form..=( For the Faery Queen Spenser invented a new verse form, which has been called since his day ; the Spenserian stanza. Because of its rare beauty it has been much used by nearly all our poets in their best work . The new stanza was an improved from of Aristo’s ottava rima and bears a close resemblance to one of Chaucer’s stanza “ is an most musical verse form “Monk’s Tale .” Spenser’s stanza is an nine lines , eight , are of five feet each and the last of six feet, riming ababbcbc. A few selections from the first book , which is best worth reading , are reproduce here to show the style and melody of the verse.
Next to his masterpiece the Shephered Calender (1579) is the best known for Spenser’s poems trough the first work ,it is below many others in melody. In consist pasroral poemd below many years . The themes are generally rular life.
Paper no:-1
Assignment
Spenser’s Major Work
About Spenser:- Life ----( Of Spenser’s early life and parentage we know little, except that he was born in East Smithfield , near the Tower of London and was poor . His education began at the Merchant Tailor’s ‘School of London’ and was continued in Cambridge , Where as a poor sizar and fag for wealthy students he earned a scant living, here in the glorious world that only a poor scholar knows how to create for himself he read the classics, made acquaintance with the great Italian poets, and wrote numberless little poems of his own. Though Chaucer was his beloved master, his ambition was not to rival the -Canterbury Tales- , but rather to express the dream of English chivalry , much as Aristotle had done for Italy in ‘ Orlando Furioso’ After leaving Cambridge (1576) Spenser went to the north of England , on some unknown work or quest . Here his chief occupation was to fail in love and to record his melancholy over the lost Rosalind in the ‘ Shepherd’s Calendar ‘ upon his friend Harvey’s advice he came to London , bringing his poems; and here he met Leicester , then at the height of royal favor and the latter took him to live at Leicester house. Here he finished the ‘Shepherd’s Calendar’ and here he met Sidney and all the queen’s favourites. The court was full of intrigues , lying and flattery , and Spenser’s opinion of his own uncomfortable position is best expressed in a few lines from “Mother Hubbard’s Tale”
“ Full Little knowest thou, that has not tried,
What hell it is , in suing long to bide :
To lose good days, that might be better spent;
To waste long nights in pensive discontent ;
To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares;
To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs;
To fawn, to crouch , to want, to ride, to run,
To spend, to give, to want, to be undone.”
In 1580, through Leicester’s influence, Spenser, who was utterly weary of his dependent position, was made secretary to Lord Grey, the queen’s deputy in Ireland, and the third period of his life began. He accompanied his chief through one campaign of savage brutality in putting down an irish rebellion, and bee confiscated from Earl Desmond, one of the irish leaders . His life here, where according to the terms of his grant he must reside as an English settler, he must reside as an English settler, he regarded as lonely exile.
*Spenser’s Works-*
‘The Faery Queen’ is the great work upon which the poet’s fame chiefly rests. The original plan of the poem included twenty-four books, each of which was to recount the adventure and triumph of a knight who represent sented a moral virtue. Spenser’s purpose , as indicated in a letter to Raleigh which introduces the poem, is as follows:
To pourtaict in Arthure , before he was king , the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private Morall Vertues, as Aristotle hath devised; which is the purpose of these first twelve books: which W. J.Long finde to be well accepted, I may be perhaps encouraged to frame the other part of polloticke vertues in his person, after that hee came to be king.
Each of the
Virtues appears as a knight, fighting his opposing Vice and the poem tells the story of the opposing vise ,and the poem tells the story of the conflicts. It is therefore purely allegorical, not only in its personified virtues but also in its representation of life as a sruggle between good and evil. In its srong moral elements the poem differs radically from ‘Oelando Furioso’ upon which it was modelled. Spenser completed only six books. Celebrating Holiness , temperance, Chasticy , Friendship , Justice and Courtesy. We have also a fragment of the seventh, treating of constancy ; but the rest of this book was not written ,or else was list in the fire at kilolman . The first three books are by far the best ; and judging by the way the interest lags and the allegory geows incomprehensible , it is perhaps as well for Spenser’s reputation that the other eighteenth books remaind a dream.
Argument of The Faery Queen.-->
From the introductory latter we learn that the hero visits the queen’s court in fairy land , while she is holding a twelve days festival . one each day some distred person appears unexpectedly tells a woful story of dragons, of enchantresses, or of distressed beuty or virtue, and ask for a champion to rights the wrong and to let the oppressed go free. Sometimes a knight volunteers or begs for the dangerous mission; again the duty is assigned by the queen; and the journeys and adventures these knights are the objects of reprasentive Holiness and the lady una, representivereligioun. Srugl between virtue and faithone of the virtue and faith on the one hand , and sin and heresy on the other. The second books tells the story of Sir Guyon, or Temperance ; the third of Bristomartis , representing Chastity; the fourth , fifth, and sixth, of Cambel and Triamond (Friensheep) Artegall and sir Calidore. Spencer’s plan was a very elastic one and he filled up the measure of his narrative with everything that caught his fancy- historical events and personages under allegorical masks , beautiful ladies , chivalrous knights, giants , monsters , dragons, sirens enchanters, and adventures enough to stock a liberty of fiction . If you read Homer or Virgil, you know his subject in the first srong line; Homer or Virgil , you know his subject in the first srong line; if you read caedmo’s parapharase or Milton’s epic, the introduction gives you the theme; but Spensor’s great poem with the exception of a single line in the prologue, “ Fierce warres and fathfull loves shall moralize my song –gives hardliy a hint of what is commimg.
As to the meaning of the allegorical figures , one is generally in doubt . In the first three books the shadowy Faery Queen sometimes represents the glory of God and sometimes Elizabeth. The Redcross Knight is Sidney , the model Englishmen . Arthur , who always appears to rescue the oppressed, is Leicester , which is another outrageous flattery. Una is sometimes religion and sometimes the protestant Church; while Duessa represents Mary Queen of Scots ,or general Catholicism . In the last three books Elizabeth appears again as Mercilla; Henry-4 of France as Bourbon ; the war in the Netherland as s story of Lady Belge; Raleigh as Timias ; the earls of Northumberland and Westmoreland as Blandamour and pridell; and so on through the wide range of Northumberland and westoreland so on through the wide range of contemporary characters and events , till the allegory becomes as difficult to follow as the second part of Gothe’s Faust.
Poetical Form..=( For the Faery Queen Spenser invented a new verse form, which has been called since his day ; the Spenserian stanza. Because of its rare beauty it has been much used by nearly all our poets in their best work . The new stanza was an improved from of Aristo’s ottava rima and bears a close resemblance to one of Chaucer’s stanza “ is an most musical verse form “Monk’s Tale .” Spenser’s stanza is an nine lines , eight , are of five feet each and the last of six feet, riming ababbcbc. A few selections from the first book , which is best worth reading , are reproduce here to show the style and melody of the verse.
Next to his masterpiece the Shephered Calender (1579) is the best known for Spenser’s poems trough the first work ,it is below many others in melody. In consist pasroral poemd below many years . The themes are generally rular life.
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