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Excerpt from Essay on Edmund Spenser and His Fairy Queen, Especially With Regard to the Language See Scherr p. 57, note 5.blew side by side. The English call this time 'the golden age' of their literature, and, although many of its branches afterwards came to a far greater degree of development, yet this denomination is very proper at least for the drama. We have already mentioned') the introduction of printing in England; now we must add that it was a principal lever of literary movement taking place in that period. It was printing that gradually brought firmness and stability into language and orthography, qualities without which a literature, as soon as it passes over from tradition by word of mouth to written expression, cannot continue in development. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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