ABSTRACT

First Published in 1969. This volume consists of four papers of the late Professor Greenlaw, the first two not before published. Chapter I was read before the History of Ideas Club at The Johns Hopkins University, December 15, 1927. Chapter II represents material used in the English Conference and Seminary at Hopkins and read as the presidential address before The Johns Hopkins Philological Association in October, 1929. Chapter III is a reprint of Professor Greenlaw’s article, Spenser and the Earl of Leicester,’’ from Publications of the Modern Language Association 25 (1910) and Chapter IV is a reprint of his Spenser and British Imperialism” from Modern Philology 9 (1912).

chapter One|58 pages

The Battle of Book

chapter Two|45 pages

Elizabethan Fact and Modern Fancy

chapter Three|29 pages

Satire and Contemporary Allusion

chapter Four|34 pages

Spenser and the “Party and Progress”