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Excerpt from The Political and Ecclesiastical Allegory of the First Book of the Faerie Queene
In this monograph I attempt to elucidate the dark conceit of the First Book of Spenser's Faerie Queene. I was stimulated to undertake this task by the interest which a class of college sophomores took in the poem as a historical document. The members Of this class, with Philistine Obduracy, frankly refused the potpourri of history furnished by the notes in the various editions, and even questioned the introduction Of the Spanish Armada into a book that presumably was written some years before the Armada set forth. My interpretation may be wrong, but in these days of higher criticism it is allowed every man to have his sayf Of one thing at least I feel sure, - the.
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