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The blackbird and the thrush, That made the woods to ring, With all the rest, are now at hush, And not a note they sing. The publication of the Faery Queene, with its languid passion and volup- tuous romance, produced a very vivid influence on the minds of several young poets, who received the stamp of Spenser's genius in their adolescence, and did The School of Spenser 28o HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE not lose it in their advancing years. The great charm of the stanza which Spenser had invite...d, —" a measure, " as Shelley said long afterwards, " in- expressibly beautiful, " fascinated several of these youthful poets, but, with the metrical restlessness of the age, none of them were content to accept it as Spenser had left it, in the brilliancy and magnificence of its perfection. They introduced modifications of it, leaving out one line (as Giles Fletcher and the author of Britain's Ida), or the two central lines of the stanza (as in The Purple Island) ; or, while retaining the nine lines, slightly rearranging the rhymes (as Phineas Fletcher in the Piscatory Eclogues).
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