text:  Grant therefore to Spenser knight-errantry--grant him dragons and enchanters and enchanted gardens satyrs and the goddess Night on her chariot--grant him love as the single purpose of human life--a faery power leading with a faery band his faery world! But while you accept this Poem as the lawful consummation and ending of that fabulous intellectual system or dream which had subsisted with authority for centuries it is wonderful to see how in the very day of Spenser the STAGE recovers humanity and nature to poetry--recalls poetry to nature and humanity! Shakspeare and Spenser what contemporaries! The world that _is_ and the world that _is not_ twinned in time and in power! This exaggeration of an immense natural power Love--making one might almost say man's worship of woman the great religion of the universe and which was the "amabilis insania" of the new poetry--long exercised an unlimited monarchy in the poetical mind of the reasonable Chaucer