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To the intimate friend of Sid ney and Raleigh, especially of the former, it is tea. sonable to attribute virtue as well as geniis , - His works breathe a fervent spirit of piety and morality ; and it would be difficult to conceive of any thing base or dissolute in conduct, in cotijunftias with the dignity of sentimeat vebech is uniformly sup ported in the produftions of his mer.e. A queru lous disposition, however, oecasfodally breaks forth : nor does he seem to have been contented under a fortune more affluent than usually Wit to the lot of a poet. He paid contiderable court to the great but without that extravagance of adulation which was not nuconunue even among the eminent per sons of that age. He possessed friends as well as patrons, and his death was lamented as a public loss to;the literature of his country. e We are nowt° speak of Spenser in his poetical capacity. Freeght with the itoreeof ancient learn ing and of the :school-philosophy of his time, and conversant with the poets of Italy, and the tales of popular ro ce, he came fully prepared for the r e execution o fl • plan of pcetical intention which his genius, :no Led by the taste of the age, might suggest ; and he found his native language suffi ciently cultivated to serve as a vehicle of poetical conceptions of any Cuss. The revival of letters had hot as yet produced in Europe the revival of that pure and natural taste which dininguished the best periods of Greece and Rome. A passionefor marvellous adventure, carried to the limits of the absurd and burlesque, and a disposition to veil truth under the disguise of allegory, charaderised the writers who Were 'Lhe favcurites of the day. Spenser did not possess that rare elevation of genius which places a man above the level of the age; but he had the richness of invention, and the warmth of feeling, which present the manner of the age in its happiest form. His first performance, however, did not indicate a marked - superiority over the con temperary poets of his country. e The SHEPHERD'S CALENDAR" is a Ser:CS of Pas torah, formed upcn no uniform plan, but in gene ral lowered down to that rustic standard which is supposed appropriate to this species of composition. The gradation of rural scenery according to the changes of the year, which the title of tne piece would lead the reader to expe6t, forms but a. small, and by no means a striking part of the design, which is rather moral than descriptive. The shep . herd's chattel:et' is borrowed, chid . ) fur the pur• pose of giving grave lectures on the condud of life ; of panegyrising a sovereign, or lamenting a lost friend : it is even made the allegorical vehicle of refledions concerning the state of religion. Spenser, at this perioo b osens to have joined that party wbich was most zealous for ecclesiastical reform, and which viewed with the greatest displeasure the corruptions introduced by the worldly pomp and dominion of popery. How adverse such topics are to the sim plicity and amenity of genuine pistoral, needs net now be pointed out. It seems generally agreed, that the description of the grand and beautiful oh )efts of nature, nith well selected scenes of rural life, real, but not ccat se, constitute the only ,propei materials of pastcral poetry. To these, Spenserhas made small additions ; and, therefore, the Shep herd's Calendar, though it obtained the applause of Sidney, and seems tmmediately to have given its author a rank a,mcng the esteemed poets of the time, would probably, in the progression of critical taste, have been consigned to obli - eicn, had it not been borne up by the fame cf the " Faery Qneene." It is not, Inwcver, void of passages marked with the writer's peculiar strength and livelinets of paint ing. The description of the aged oak, in the moral • fable of February, may be pointed out as an in stance of this kind; as well as the Whole fable et' the kid and. wolf, under May. The rustic and antiquated language of the greater part of thee pieces'was, doubtless, intended to correspond \viol the charader annexed to pastoral poetry ; but its simplicity is often carried to rudeness and vulgarity. The' alliteration, which is also meant as a charader of antiquity, will scarcely please e modern ear. ii The nERy Queeert,the inseparable companion of Spenser's fame, is one of the most singular rextant in any language ; and, from the un ifh2sed state in which we possess it, we should pro. feebly have fcund it impossible to forne a clear con ception of the author's plan in writing it, had he not, in a letter to Sir Walter Raleigh, prefixed to the publication of the first three books, given its ge neral argument. We there learn, that his leading purpose--a truly noble one—was to train a person of rank in e vertuous and gentle discipline," by ex hibiting a perfect example of the twelve private moral virtues, as they are enumerated by Aristotle. This is done its " a continued allegory or dark con ceit," rendered more dark than the usual obscurity of allegorical fiEtion by an extraordinary involution of the plot. The general hero, or image of perfed excellence, is the Ilritish prince Arthur, so renowned in legendary history ; yet each several book has its particular hero, whose adventures allegorically dis play the exercisF of that virtue which is the proper subjea of the book. In order, therefore, to pre serve the unity of the whialJ l , Priece Arthur is oc casionally introduced as an auxiliary of these al legorical knights in their most ddegerous adven tures. The quality pecnliarle- ateribeited to him is Magnificence, which, in modern language, would - perhaps rather be termed Magnanimity, cr Great ness of Sonl, as being the sum and perfedloo of all the other virtues, He is enamoured in a vision with the beatify. Aft klee . kner, flume, and comets to ir • .......--.-........ 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