Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Spenser's Poem, Entitled Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, Explained, Vol. 4: With Remarks Upon the Amoretti Sonnets, and Also Upon a Few of the Minor Poems of Other Early English Poets
Hume tells us, in the brief critical notices of lite rary works at successive periods embraced in his history, that Spenser's faerie queene was a work which every scholar, or man Of pretension to literary taste, felt bound to have upon his table; but he adds, that no one felt bound to read it. Whether this criticism, or what, has worked the change we cannot say, but it is quite certain that the Once fam ous allegory of Una and the Lamb is no longer, or but rarely, seen upon the scholar's desk, and is only seen upon the parlor centre-table when richly bound in gilt and illustrated with pictures for the eye, while the book itself is as little read now as it was in the days of David Hume.
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