Edmund Spenser
Talk by Enid Welsford , Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge
‛ ‟Sweet Spenser moving through his cloudy Heaven " is an invention of the Romantics; the real Spenser was a sensible man of affairs and a serious thinker.' The speaker illustrates her view by analysing the philosophic implications and didactic purpose of Spenser's poetry.
Third of a series of talks