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10 Sep 2017: thesis is convincingly supported by reference to a wide variety of ancient and modern writers on economics, politics, religion, and of course literature. ... The eighteen years Spenser spent in Ireland taught him this lesson well." [See SpN, 1 (Fall 1970)

10 Sep 2017: The final chapter proposes that court masques and civic pageants offered competing economic and literary models. ... As this chapter persuasively demonstrates, economic, political, and literary concerns continued to intersect in seventeenth-century

10 Sep 2017: That lesson is lost, however, on the speakers of the so-called secular sequences of Sidney and his followers. ... The Spenser from whom Milton most directly borrowed was a "primitIve force, an avatar of change and rough justice," whose rustic shepherds

10 Sep 2017: Because temperance is a public virtue, Guyon's instruction takes the form of a history lesson which underscores the social necessity of subjecting passion to the rule of reason, private pleasure ... At Elizabeth's court, the Petrarchan language of love

10 Sep 2017: reinforce the final lesson about the dangerous, unnatural "liberty of women." She reads Spenser as a supporter of the status quo, willing to admit exceptions to the rank of women, but

10 Sep 2017: illustrates the lessons of philoso-phJt and history.

10 Sep 2017: This is the lesson of the sea voyage and the life voyage.

10 Sep 2017: These young people, from urban areas of government-recognized economic and educational deprivation, spoke their respective lines in impressive unison.

10 Sep 2017: instead, Grogan’s Spenser favors flexible examples and contingent lessons which encourage the interpretive liberty of the reader, putting the experience of narrative at the poem’s moral center. ... Wofford describes Berger as both a classicist and a

10 Sep 2017: But Zurcher retreats from his thesis that Calidore, as the embodiment of courtesy, must learn lessons that Artegall has not by endorsing Calidore’s actions against the “brigants,” who belong to