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...gift of 260 volumes from the library of W. A. White '63, made by members of his family and other friends of Harvard. Among the interesting books in this group are a copy of Sir Phillip Sidney's "Defense of Poesic" published in 1595 and a copy of Spenser's "Prothalamion" printed...
...turned aside suddenly from the exciting whirl of business and politics to adore alone, in some inner room, the sensuous harmonies of Spenser. He dallied dangerously with court beauties; and then went to meditate for hours upon the attributes of the Deity in the cold church of St. Paul...
...19th century writers. One question was to "show by an analysis of the content, style or diction of three of the following passages in what ways they are characteristic of their authors or of the times in which they were written." The passages were taken from William Langland, Edmund Spenser, Samuel Johnson, Charles Lamb, Lord Byron...
...Elizabethan era and the period immediately succeeding it supplied the subjects for the second division. Spenser, Lyly, Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Donne were the authors reviewed...
...examination consisted of five quotations from English authors of different periods. The student was to analyze the content, style, and diction of three of the passages, telling why they were characteristic of their authors and the times in which they were written. The quotations were taken from Langland, Spenser, Samuel Johnson, Charles Lamb, and Byron...