 | Heather Dubrow, Richard Strier - 1988 - Liczba stron: 387
...the fall from the golden age that justifies his use of fable, he silently reworks his source in Ovid. For from the golden age, that first was named, It's now at earst become a stonie one; And men themselves, the which at first were framed Of earthly mould, and form'd of flesh... | |
 | 1991 - Liczba stron: 354
...conflict and incompatibility: "Such oddes I finde twixt those, and these which are, / As that . . . / Me seemes the world is runne quite out of square / From the first point of his appointed course" (5.proem.1). The first simile in the book follows, as if to illustrate what we, the readers,... | |
 | Mihoko Suzuki - 1989 - Liczba stron: 292
...Foucault describes. In the Proem to Book 5, Spenser lamented the degeneration of the world, which has "runne quite out of square, / From the first point...being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse" (s.Pr.i). The ultimate consequence of this degeneration is the confusion of opposites: For that which... | |
 | Annabel M. Patterson, Professor Annabel Patterson - 1993 - Liczba stron: 358
...(5.2.41). Yet this position flagrantly contradicts the narrator's clear statements in the Proem (stanza 4): Me seemes the world is runne quite out of square,...being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse. Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right, As all things else in time are chaunged quite. If... | |
 | Janet Levarie Smarr - 1993 - Liczba stron: 238
...(5:2:41). Yet this position flagrantly contradicts the narrator's clear statements in the Proem (stanza 4): Me seemes the world is runne quite out of square,...being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse. Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right, As all things else in time are chaunged quite. The... | |
 | Richard Rambuss - 1993 - Liczba stron: 184
...to satire than to imperial epic, he places his nation in the midst of a stone age, not a golden one: For from the golden age, that first was named, It's now at earst become a stonie one; And men themselues, the which at first were framed Of earthly mould, and form'd of flesh... | |
 | Robin Headlam Wells - 1994 - Liczba stron: 312
...When as mans age was in his freshest prime, And the first blossome of faire vertue bare, Such oddes I finde twixt those, and these which are, As that,...being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse. (v. proem, i ) But the corollary of a classic view of human nature is the need for powerful authority.... | |
 | Judith H. Anderson - 1996 - Liczba stron: 372
...historically grounded anxieties voiced conspicuously (paradox intended) by the speaker of the fifth proem: Me seemes the world is runne quite out of square,...being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse. Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right, As all things else in time are chaunged quight. Ne... | |
 | Michael F. N. Dixon - 1996 - Liczba stron: 260
...the starting point for a dynamic of degeneration which that cycle becomes in the overture to Book V: "Me seemes the world is runne quite out of square, / From the first point of his appointed source, / And being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse" (V.Pr.i). Spenser's tropes here suggest... | |
 | Andrew Murphy - 1999 - Liczba stron: 248
...mans age was in his freshest prime, And the first blossome of faire vertue bare, Such oddes I find twixt those, and these which are, As that, through...point of his appointed sourse, And being once amisse growe daily wourse and wourse. (V Proem 1) In this introduction, Spenser is summoning up a long-standing... | |
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So oft as I with state of present time The image of the antique world compare, When as mans age was in his freshest prime, And the first blossome of faire vertue bare ; Such oddes I finde twixt those, and these which are, As that, through long continuance... 
