THE CASTLE OF INDOLENCE

The "Castle of Indolence" is a renewal of Spencer's best pictures—a renewal not only in its dreamy voluptuousness of character, but in its stanzaic peculiarities. It has been said that no other writers ever succeeded in acquiring the peculiar flow of Milton's blank verse, or the singular play of Spenser's old time rhythm. This is true with an exception. One half of "The Castle of Indolence," if a little more antiquated, might be inserted among the cantos of the Faery Queene without detectio...