...Sandro Jung This essay approaches Edmund Spenser’s Renaissance masterpiece, The Faerie Queene , through a hitherto unknown series of twenty-four vignette illustrations that the eighteenth-century painter and book illustrator, Thomas Stothard, contributed to the nowadays little-known annual...

.... An early case in point is Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, its author present in the pages of The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Volume III: The Irish Book in Eng- lish, 1550 – 1800 as a new English colonist serving as secretary to Lord Grey in Dublin. The poet and his patron are two points...

... vitality of Irish nature. Such attitudes have an exemplar in Edmund Spenser, whose “Mutabilitie Cantos” are included here. Despite his anti-Irish sentiment, Spenser wrote poetry that bears Ireland’s imprint: natural abundance is shadowed by a threat of unruly lawlessness, as verdant wildness veers...

..., 70). This interplay between the familiar and the strange serves as a testing ground for new narrative strategies in Spanish fiction, and it may also define an impor- tant characteristic of the novel more generally. Alan Paterson, in “Translation in the Formation of Genre: Edmund Spenser...

... that Upton “provided annotations of such learning and intelli- gence that they are still the most helpful and interesting to be found in the modern Variorum edition” (Edmund Spenser: A Critical Anthology [Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969], p. 64). 6. “Upton, in a Letter concerning a New Edition...

... across the first four syllables Thee, Goddess, thee, which gives it more vocative insis- tence than Edmund Spenser s imitation of this Lucretian line, an imita- tion that has only one caesura in its first six syllables: Thee goddesse, thee } 6 Eighteenth-Century Life the winds, the clouds doe...

... (49). The phrases echo Pope s claim in the preface to his Homer that the reader is hurry d out of himself by the Force of the Poet s Imagination. 27 Moreover, the quotations Burke uses in the section on the sublime are from John Milton (44, 48), Virgil (50, 67, 68, 70, 72), and Edmund Spenser (68...

... and uniform, without tumult and faction.” Adair’s thesis is that Madison modeled the 10th Federalist on Hume’s earlier essay. The most important challenge to Adair’s thesis came from Edmund S. Morgan, who in 1986 noted a crucial diff erence between Hume’s essay and Madison’s, namely, that whereas Hume...

..., on Ashley Marshall’s account: one can have only one drawer of the specimen cabinet open at a time. But satirists have long memories. In Creative Destruction   7 9 the Romantic era, the battle over the Glorious Revolution was fought all over again, Edmund...

..., for giving glorious bastings To that intolerable fellow Hastings. (p. 9) This introduction is characteristic of Peter’s style with its debunking infor- mality and a general facetiousness deployed in an indiscriminate manner. So Edmund Burke’s agitations against Warren Hastings over his conduct...

... understanding of what Dryden is trying to achieve through the use of occult ideas and terminology. 12. Warren L. Chernaik, The Poetry of Limitation: A Study of Edmund Waller (New Haven: Yale Univ., 1968), cited by McKeon, Politics, 32. In this regard, Dryden uses the occult in ways similar to his...

... Mr. Thomas Birch, Mr. John Lockman, and other Hands, 10 vols. (London: G. Strahan, 1734), 1:preface (n.p Edmund Bohun, et al. had done something similar in their translation of another significant foreign predecessor, Louis Moreri s The Great, Historical, Geographical, and Poetical Dictionary, 2 vols...