LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Who remarked, “Spenser write no language.”
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Pope
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Arnold
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Dr. Jhonson
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Ben Jonson
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -To be scrupulously accurate, Spenser also was a self-conscious archaizer who imported Middle English freely into his works in imitation of Chaucer. As Ben Jonson said of him, “ Spencer, in affecting the Ancients writ no language.
Detailed explanation-2: -Francis Cunningham (London, 1897), II, 414. (The famous remark that Spenser writ no language occurs p. 412 of this edition of Timber.)
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1596, Spenser wrote a prose pamphlet titled A View of the Present State of Ireland.
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