Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches And Characters of English Liter
Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches And Characters of English Liter
Disraeli Isaac
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Allegory. 133 tical for a succeeding generation, the poet is no longer to be judged by the darkness which has hidden small and fugitive matters. We cannot know the degree which Spenser allowed liimself in distant allusions to the court of Elizabeth, or, as the poet himself vaguely said, to " Fairy -land ;" he may have promised far more than he would care to perform ; for an epical poet must have found the descent into a chronicler of scandalous legends, a por- trayer of so many nameless persona...ges, incompatil)le with the flow and elevation of his themes. And for what was never ascertained in its own asre we dare not confide to that mj'stical vaticinator of past events, a conjectural historian ! Our interpreter of allegory was honest as well as hardy ; in truth, he is sometimes startled at the historical revela- tions which crowd on his mind. It required "the hound's fine footing, " to borrow the beautiful figure of Spenser himself, for our conjeeturer to course in this field of allegory.
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