ANQ, March 22nd, 2006
William Collins's "Ode on the Poetical Character" (Lonsdale 427-35), first published in his Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegoric Subjects of 1746, has frequently posed problems of comprehension to critics of Collins's poetry (Jung, William Collins 96-107). Especially Collins's references to and reworking of an episode in book 4 of The Faerie Queene have usually been regarded as a misreading of Spenser's text (Lonsdale 428n.). Collins makes clear that the "zone" or girdle attributed to Florimel by Spenser can only be given to a unique "unrivalled fair." One, only one, unrivalled fair Mig...
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