CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE, C. F. CLAY, MANAGER. London: FETTER LANE, E.C. Glasgow: 50, WELLINGTON STREET. Leipzig: F. A. BROCKHAUS. New York: G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS. Bombay and Calcutta: MACMILLAN AND CO., Ltd. [All Rights reserved] THE FOWRE HYMNES Edited by LILIAN WINSTANLEY, M.A. Late Scholar and Fellow of the Victoria University of Manchester, CAMBRIDGE: at the University Press 1907 بوم 2360 F6 4+2 15707 Cambridge: PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A. AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY APR 19 1379 PREFACE. HIS edition of Spenser's Fowre Hymnes is intended ΤΗ mainly for the use of students and, since it has not been possible to assume in all cases a knowledge of the original languages, the writer has employed Jowett's translations of the Phaedrus and Symposium and has made either translations or summaries of the passages quoted from Ficino's Commentarium in Convivium and Bruno's De gl' Heroici Furori. Though the work is intended primarily for students it is hoped that the Introduction may prove of some use to Spenserian scholars generally; so far as the editor knows the influence of the Heroici Furori on Spenser has not been suggested before and that of the Symposium and Phaedrus and of Ficino is worked out much more fully than can be found elsewhere. Students who wish to pursue the subject in Spenser's contemporaries are referred to Mr Harrison's excellent monograph on Platonism in English Poetry. L. WINSTANLEY. September, 1907. |