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Excerpt from Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Vol. 1 of 3: The Text Carefully Revised and Illustrated With Notes, Original and Selected
A new impression of these volumes having, during my absence from the country, advanced more than half-way to completion, I am prevented for the pres ent, from noticing as they deserve, two papers which have been recently put forth on subjects connected with Spenser's biography. The one of these was contributed by Mr. Keightley to Fraser's Magazine, and, contrary to the custom of that author, adds very little to what was previously known. The other ar ticle, which appeared in the Atlantic Monthly for November, 1858, (and which, therefore, is immediately accessible to all who feel an interest in the matter, ) is worthy of special attention. It discusses two of the most curious, if not the most important, questions in the life of Spenser the name and history of his youthful mistress, the enigmatical Rosalind, and of his wife. The discussion of the first of these points has hitherto resulted only in an exposure of the ex treme folly of those writers who have attempted it; but, unless I am greatly deceived, the article now spoken of has most ingeniously resolved the puzzle, and has satisfactorily shown that Rosalind was Rose.
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