by Keats · Cluster: Education · Self-Made Man · Wheel
Abstract
A single Spenserian stanza extending The Faerie Queene, in which ‘Typographus’ reforms the Giant by books and learning to defeat Artegall and Talus. It plays on the power of the book and learning within Spenserian allegory.
Connections
Motifs: Book Reading Themes & Concepts: Education Forms & Genres: Spenserian Stanza, Allegory Historical References: Renaissance
Testo integrale / Full text
Written at the close of Canto II, Book V, of’The Faerie Queene’.
In after-time, a sage of mickle lore
Yclep’d Typographus, the Giant took,
And did refit his limbs as heretofore,
And made him read in many a learned book,
And into many a lively legend look;
Thereby in goodly themes so training him,
That all his brutishness he quite forsook,
When, meeting Artegall and Talus grim,
The one he struck stone-blind, the other’s eyes wox dim.