[Elizabeth I] “released their creative power. She was a Queen, not a King, and all that was left of medieval chivalry idealized her into an incarnation of England, a militant heroine inseparable in imagination from the brave, young new nation who was saving herself from those proud old foes, the Papacy, Spain, and France, that had for centuries held her in contempt. Spenser belonged to the party that hated and feared these foes with an active hatred, the party of Leicester, Raleigh, and the Sidneys. With some risk of being misunderstood I may call it the Puritan party” (Charles Grosvenor Osgood, Poetry as a Means of Grace, p. 63).
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