ABSTRACT
First published in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, III, September 1833, pp. 695–701; see headnote above, pp. 203–5. It was reprinted in Hunt, Literary, pp. 446–56. Hunt had published another essay on Spenser only three months earlier in the New Monthly Magazine (Hunt, Literary, pp. 420–45). Hunt spent a lifetime reading Spenser. ‘The more I read Spenser’, he wrote.
