EDMUND SPENSER.

EDITED, WITH A NEW Life, based oN ORIGINAL RESEARCHES,
AND A GLOSSARY EMBRAcing Notes AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

BY THE

REV. ALEXANDER B. GROSART, LL.D. (EDIN.). F.S.A..
St George's, Blackburn, Lancashire;

LIFE OF SPENSER. BY THE EDITOR, WITH APPENDIX.

ESSAYS:

I. CHARACTERISTICS OF SPENSER'S POETRY.
By Aubrey de Vere, Esq.

2. SPENSER THE POET AND TEACHER.
By Prof. Edward Dowden, LL.D.

3. CERTAIN ASPECTS OF THE POETRY OF SPENSER.
By the Rev. W. B. Philpot, M.A.

4. THE INTROSPECTION AND OUTLOOK OF SPENSER.
By the Rev. William Hubbard.

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ΤΟ

ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON,

Poet Laureate.

THE WORKS OF SPENSER IN THY HANDS I PLACE,

AS FROM HIS HANDS THEY CAME; AT LAST SET FREE
FROM TOUCH PROFANE-WORTHY OF HIM AND THEE,-
THEE TENNYSON, TRUE CHILD OF THAT HIGH RACE,
A SINGER BORN!-METHINKS 'TIS MEET TO GRACE
THIS LOVING LABOUR SO; THAT MEN MAY SEE
THRO' WHAT A LUMINOUS CONTINUITY

OUR ENGLISH MUSE STILL LIFTS HER AWFUL FACE.
HIS THE RICH VISION OF THE 'FAERIE QUEENE,'
'ECLOGUES,' AND MARRIAGE-LAY;

SONGS,

THINE, MATCHLESS

'ARTHUR,' 'THE BOOK OF MEMORY'; AND I WEEN

THE LATER VOICE THE FIRST FULL NOTE PROLONGS:HAPPY OUR ENGLAND THAT FROM AGE TO AGE KEEPS BRIGHT HER GRAND POETIC HERITAGE.

With gracious-worded permission.

ALEXANDER B. GROSART.

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