The Spenser EncyclopediaA.C. Hamilton 'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 86
Page
... Amoret 'should surely beare the bell away,' as Florimell once brought the belt away from Acidale (IV v 13, 5). On Acidale, the chastity of Colin's mistress is preeminent among her charms, and she 'above all other lasses beare[s] the ...
... Amoret 'should surely beare the bell away,' as Florimell once brought the belt away from Acidale (IV v 13, 5). On Acidale, the chastity of Colin's mistress is preeminent among her charms, and she 'above all other lasses beare[s] the ...
Page
... Amoret meets in Lust's cave (FQ IV vii). When Amoret escapes, she remains behind with the old hag until released when Belphoebe slays Lust. Aemylia then accompanies the wounded Amoret until the two, 'in full sad and sorrowfull estate ...
... Amoret meets in Lust's cave (FQ IV vii). When Amoret escapes, she remains behind with the old hag until released when Belphoebe slays Lust. Aemylia then accompanies the wounded Amoret until the two, 'in full sad and sorrowfull estate ...
Page
... Amoret and the reader, however, learn a healthy suspicion of appearances. It is little wonder, then, that this episode is most often likened to Shakespeare's comic vision: characters consent to their mates in spite of some moral ...
... Amoret and the reader, however, learn a healthy suspicion of appearances. It is little wonder, then, that this episode is most often likened to Shakespeare's comic vision: characters consent to their mates in spite of some moral ...
Page
... Amoret's story runs from her birth and early education in the Garden of Adonis (III vi) to her final disappearance in IV ix, although we do not hear Scudamour's story of her courtship until IV x. Rescue and separation are key motifs in ...
... Amoret's story runs from her birth and early education in the Garden of Adonis (III vi) to her final disappearance in IV ix, although we do not hear Scudamour's story of her courtship until IV x. Rescue and separation are key motifs in ...
Page
... Amoret's adventures in IV repeat the theme of rescue and separation, and she is twice brought to a possible reunion with Scudamour. In the first, she wanders away from Britomart—'faire Amoret, of nought affeard,/Walkt through the wood ...
... Amoret's adventures in IV repeat the theme of rescue and separation, and she is twice brought to a possible reunion with Scudamour. In the first, she wanders away from Britomart—'faire Amoret, of nought affeard,/Walkt through the wood ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Acrasia Aeneid allegory allusions Amoret Amoretti appears Archimago Ariosto Artegall Arthur Arthurian Beast beauty Bellay Belphoebe Bible Book Bower of Bliss Britomart Busirane Calidore canto castle century characters chastity Chaucer Christian classical Colin Clout commentary Complaints contemporary court courtesy Cupid divine dragon Duessa eclogue edition Elizabeth Elizabethan emblem England epic episode Epithalamion Faerie Queene figure Florimell Garden of Adonis grace Guyon heavenly hero holiness human ideal imitation interpretation John knight lady Latin Letter to Raleigh literary London lover marriage meaning medieval moral Mother Hubberd Muses Mutabilitie myth narrative nature Neoplatonic Orlando furioso Ovid pastoral Petrarch poem poet poet's poetic poetry praise Prayer proem prose quest reader Redcrosse Redcrosse's reference Reformation Renaissance romance Rome Scudamour Shepheardes Calender Sidney sonnet Spenser Spenserian stanza story suggests symbolic Tale Timias tradition translation University Venus verse viii virgin virtue vision