 So now he raungeth through the world againe, And rageth sore in each degree and state; Ne any is that may him now restraine, He growen is so great and strong of late, Barking and biting all that him doe bate, Albe they worthy blame, or cleare of crime...  The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser - Page 134by Edmund Spenser - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Mihoko Suzuki - 1989 - 292 pages
...the world againe, And rageth sore in each degree and state; Ne any is, that may him now restraine, He growen is so great and strong of late, Barking...rime, But rends without regard of person or of time. [6.12.40] Just as Spenser called into question the difference between Calidore and the Blatant Beast,... | |
 | David Lee Rubin - 1996 - 272 pages
...victim: So now [the Beast] raungeth through the world againe, And rageth sore in each degree and state; Ne spareth he the gentle Poets rime, But rends without regard of person or of time. (6:xii.40.l-2,7-9) The Beast has even accomplished the defaming of this poem; this infamy has brought... | |
 | David Loewenstein, Janel M. Mueller - 2002 - 1064 pages
...the world againe, And rageth sore in each degree and state; Ne any is, that may him now restraine, He growen is so great and strong of late, Barking and biting all that him doe bate. (6.12.40) Not even the poet is spared. Through Spenser's sad if realistic appraisal of his own position... | |
 | Andrew Murphy - 1999 - 248 pages
...by the very issues raised in the poem. We learn of the Blatant Beast in the final canto of book VI: "Ne spareth he the gentle Poets rime, / But rends without regard of person or of time" (VI xii 40 8-9). The beast's rending of "the gentle Poets rime" serves as an image of the text's effectively... | |
 | Bruce McLeod - 1999 - 304 pages
...degree and state; Ne any is, that may him noe restraine, He growen is so great and strong of late. Ne spareth he the gentle Poets rime, But rends without regard of person or of time. (v1.xii.4o) The symbol of the metastasizing nature of colonial space and its subjects as well as the... | |
 | Andrew Hadfield - 2001 - 302 pages
...of The Faerie Queene published in Spenser's lifetime ends on a distinctly gloomy note with the beast 'Barking and biting all that him doe bate, / Albe they worthy blame, or cleare of crime' (xii, 40). In the nightmare world of the present, as Books v and VI have outlined, it is impossible... | |
 | Dennis Kezar Assistant Professor of English Vanderbilt University - 2001 - 282 pages
..."raungeth through the world againe" with all the unconstrained social energy of the "Ages monster": "Ne spareth he the gentle Poets rime, / But rends without regard of person or of time" (6.12.40). It was the fear of "gealous opinions and misconstructions" that motivated Spenser to discover,... | |
 | J. B. Lethbridge - 2006 - 404 pages
...great and strong of late. Barking and baiting all that him doe bate, Albe they worthy blame, or clear of crime, Ne spareth he most learned wits to rate,...rime. But rends without regard of person or of time. (FQ VI.xii.40) In the opening verse of Mutabilitie the general cause of this particularized sense of... | |
 | Elliott M. Simon - 2007 - 622 pages
...the world againe. And rageth sore in each degree and state; Ne any is, that may him now restraine, He growen is so great and strong of late. Barking and biting all that him doe hate, Albe they worthy blame, or cleare of crime: Ne spareth he most learned wits to rate, Ne spareth... | |
 | Thomas Herron - 2007 - 296 pages
...centuries. O'Conor, The Archaeology of Medieval Rural Settlement, 42, 47. large in the world and spare not "gentle poets rime,/ But rends without regard of person or of time" (VI.xii.40). Spenser is clearly sermonizing on the universal nature of slander. But here, as elsewhere... | |
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