| H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 страници
...Preface to Fables (1700) 'Milton was the poetical son of Spenser, and Mr Waller of Fairfax; for we have our lineal descents and clans as well as other families:...begotten by him two hundred years after his decease' (Dryden, Of Dramatic Poesy, II, p. 170). Dryden implies that he is a son of this clan when he acknowledges... | |
| Ulrich Broich - 1990 - 252 страници
...well as other Families: Spencer more than once insinuates, that the Soul of Chaucer was transfus'd into his Body; and that he was begotten by him Two hundred years after his Decease. Milton has acknowledg'd to me, that Spenser was his Original.2 The fact that this idea was still current fifty... | |
| Ruth Morse, Barry Windeatt - 2006 - 296 страници
...Fables, Dryden comments: 'Spencer more than once insinuates, that the Soul of Chaucer was transfus'd into his Body; and that he was begotten by him Two Hundred years after his Decease. Milton has acknowledg'd to me that Spencer was his Original' (CH, p. 1 6o) . Milton's reference in // Penseroso... | |
| Albert Charles Hamilton - 1997 - 884 страници
...Fables, Ancient and Modern: 'Spencer more than once insinuates, that the Soul of Chaucer was transfus'd into his Body; and that he was begotten by him Two hundred years after his Decease' (Sp All pp 75, 28, 311). Spenser refers to Chaucer eight times in his poetry. In The Faerie Queene,... | |
| Annabel Patterson - 1991 - 188 страници
...well as other Families: Spencer more than once insinuates, that the Soul of Chaucer was transfus'd into his Body; and that he was begotten by him Two hundred years after his Decease." And by translating the Nun's Priest's Tale into early modern idiom, therefore, as he claimed, preserving... | |
| Lee Patterson - 1991 - 508 страници
...Chaucer's genius available to his poetic heirs. "Milton was the poetical son of Spenser, and," says Dryden, "Spenser more than once insinuates that the soul of Chaucer was transfused into his body" (270)." Of course the 24. John Dryden, "Preface to Fables Ancient and Modern," in Of Dramatic Poesy... | |
| Annabel M. Patterson, Professor Annabel Patterson - 1993 - 358 страници
...well as other Families: Spencer more than once insinuates, that the Soul of Chaucer was transfus'd into his Body, and that he was begotten by him Two hundred years after his Decease. Milton has acknowledg'd to me, that Spencer was his Original; and many besides myself have heard our famous Waller... | |
| Gerald L. Bruns - 1992 - 338 страници
...metaphorical sense to him. He has this remark in Preface to the Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700): "Spenser more than once insinuates that the soul of Chaucer was transfused into his body."5 Dryden insinuates no less. When he translated Chaucer he thought he could do a good job of... | |
| Kevin Dunn - 1994 - 266 страници
...the direction of its flow can be reversed.35 The ambiguous pronouns in a sentence already quoted — "Spenser more than once insinuates, that the soul...begotten by him two hundred years after his decease" — are the first of many suggestions that tradition is a two-way street on which the flow of poetical... | |
| Kevin Pask - 1996 - 238 страници
...Waller of Fairfax; for we [poets] have our lineal descents and clans as well as other families. Spencer more than once insinuates, that the Soul of Chaucer...after his decease. Milton has acknowledged to me, that Spencer was his original. (2:247) Dryden produces a model of interpoetic "conception" which rivals... | |
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