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The interest of the subject deepens with the rise of the neo-classicism. Mr. Cory claims that Spenser exercised a greater influence on the Augustans than he afterwards did on the 'romanticists in reality each age took only a partial view of the poet - that, of course, which best suited it - and it is curious to compare the respective judgments. The neo-classicists emphasised beauties in Spenser that were lost on the Romanticists. The former loved his fidelity to Virgil, and deplored his debauchery by Ariosto; while the latter, when their day came, praised him for his debt to the Italians, and regretted his Latin blemishes. His didactic tone and his allegorical method are his chief excellences to the Augustans. But when the Romantic Revival came, the boot was on the other leg. He is now sought rather as a poet of ardent emotion and sensuous glow than as a poet of vast moral visions his appeal is to the feelings of the heart rather than the cold approbation of the head. He is even conceived as a true Romanticist blushing for his enthu siasm, and cloaking his romance in morals to hide his shame.
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The interest of the subject deepens with the rise of the neo-classicism. Mr. Cory claims that Spenser exercised a greater influence on the Augustans than he afterwards did on the 'romanticists in reality each age took only a partial view of the poet - that, of course, which best suited it - and it is curious to compare the respective judgments. The neo-classicists emphasised beauties in Spenser that were lost on the Romanticists. The former loved his fidelity to Virgil, and deplored his debauchery by Ariosto; while the latter, when their day came, praised him for his debt to the Italians, and regretted his Latin blemishes. His didactic tone and his allegorical method are his chief excellences to the Augustans. But when the Romantic Revival came, the boot was on the other leg. He is now sought rather as a poet of ardent emotion and sensuous glow than as a poet of vast moral visions his appeal is to the feelings of the heart rather than the cold approbation of the head. He is even conceived as a true Romanticist blushing for his enthu siasm, and cloaking his romance in morals to hide his shame.
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