The Spenser EncyclopediaA.C. Hamilton 'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains |
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... Book I of The Faerie Queene' SpN 16:45–6. Alciati, Andrea (1492–1550) In 1522, this renowned Italian professor of jurisprudence produced the first and most famous Renaissance emblem book—a manuscript of Latin epigrams describing things ...
... Book I of The Faerie Queene' SpN 16:45–6. Alciati, Andrea (1492–1550) In 1522, this renowned Italian professor of jurisprudence produced the first and most famous Renaissance emblem book—a manuscript of Latin epigrams describing things ...
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... Book I, for example, Lilian Winstanley constructed a detailed allegory of the Reformation under Henry VIII; see also ... Book I most consistently and successfully creates this Virgilian sense of a fictional world set in an undefined past ...
... Book I, for example, Lilian Winstanley constructed a detailed allegory of the Reformation under Henry VIII; see also ... Book I most consistently and successfully creates this Virgilian sense of a fictional world set in an undefined past ...
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... Book v a more apologetic character, diminishes the poem's imaginative vitality. In its final completed book, the poem draws back from history. Unlike the previous books, Book VI contains no figure who represents the Queen. Though it ...
... Book v a more apologetic character, diminishes the poem's imaginative vitality. In its final completed book, the poem draws back from history. Unlike the previous books, Book VI contains no figure who represents the Queen. Though it ...
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... books of the French Amadis, published as 21 separate volumes in Antwerp, Paris, or Lyon from 1548 to 1581. Book I has an edition by Hughes Vaganay (Paris 1918). See O'Connor 1970:287–9. The Ancient, Famous, and Honourable History of ...
... books of the French Amadis, published as 21 separate volumes in Antwerp, Paris, or Lyon from 1548 to 1581. Book I has an edition by Hughes Vaganay (Paris 1918). See O'Connor 1970:287–9. The Ancient, Famous, and Honourable History of ...
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... Books IV–VI in 1596, Spenser rewrote the ending of Book III: although Amoret is rescued by Britomart, she remains separated from Scudamour for the rest of the poem. The new series of her adventures in Book IV continues the theme of ...
... Books IV–VI in 1596, Spenser rewrote the ending of Book III: although Amoret is rescued by Britomart, she remains separated from Scudamour for the rest of the poem. The new series of her adventures in Book IV continues the theme of ...
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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