Whatever there is to say about Spenser's understanding -- through Paul --
of the relations of the sinful body and the pure soul, as a poet he
clothed his spiritual particulars, his intuitions of disembodied thought
or being, in images of such fiercely driven nervously demonically embodied
activity and gesture that neither dualism nor monism quite work to
describe what he was doing. And he knew as well as Blake how dualisms are
turned to ugly ends.
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