Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Sources of Spenser's Classical Mythology
Miss Sawtelle's book was undertaken as a doctoral thesis in the English department of Yale University. It has been wrought out with singular care, and very little has been taken at second hand, so that it may fairly be depended upon as accurate in scholarship.
There ought, I should think, to be a modest place in colleges and schools for a work of this nature; certainly where Spenser is studied, and perhaps where attention is paid to any of the poetic Elizabethans. Spenser's mythology is by no means peculiar to himself, and much of it may be used for the illustration of poetry in its whole range from the times of great Elizabeth to the present.
Mr. Churton Collins, as well as Matthew Arnold, has made himself the spokesman of the doctrine that English literature should be studied in the light of the ancient classics; and perhaps this opuscule will be accepted by those who are of the same mind with these writers, as an illustration of their theory.
The author has necessarily traveled much in the realms of gold, while in quest of the materials for freighting her little craft; and I trust that her venture will do something to convince those who have doubted whether scholarship was quite compatible with literary appreciation, that the two need not perforce be disjoined.
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