The Spenser EncyclopediaA.C. Hamilton 'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains Edmund Spenser remains one of Britain's most famous poets. With nearly 700 entries this Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive one-stop reference tool for: * appreciating Spenser's poetry in the context of his age and our own * understanding the language, themes and characters of the poems * easy to find entries arranged by subject. |
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... for the matter of Spenserian romance. With antecedents like the disappearing dance of the fairy-like ladies in Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale ('Vanysshed was this daunce, he nyste where' 991–6; cf 'vanisht...which way he.
... for the matter of Spenserian romance. With antecedents like the disappearing dance of the fairy-like ladies in Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale ('Vanysshed was this daunce, he nyste where' 991–6; cf 'vanisht...which way he.
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... Chaucer's description of Venus in the garden of love (Parliament of Fowls 267–73); Chaucer in turn echoes Boccaccio's Teseida. Acrasia first appears as a seductress in the early tablet of.
... Chaucer's description of Venus in the garden of love (Parliament of Fowls 267–73); Chaucer in turn echoes Boccaccio's Teseida. Acrasia first appears as a seductress in the early tablet of.
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... Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls. Referring directly to Alanus' text, Spenser calls De planctu by a mistranslated Middle English title, Plaint of kindes (FQ VII vii 9; Chaucer correctly titles it Pleynt of Kynde in PF 316). As a result ...
... Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls. Referring directly to Alanus' text, Spenser calls De planctu by a mistranslated Middle English title, Plaint of kindes (FQ VII vii 9; Chaucer correctly titles it Pleynt of Kynde in PF 316). As a result ...
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... Chaucer's Allegories (Princeton); Jackson 1964; Hans Robert Jauss 1968 'Entstehung und Strukturwandel der allegorischen Dichtung' in La Littérature didactique, allégorique et satirique ed Hans Robert Jauss, in Grundriss der romanischen ...
... Chaucer's Allegories (Princeton); Jackson 1964; Hans Robert Jauss 1968 'Entstehung und Strukturwandel der allegorischen Dichtung' in La Littérature didactique, allégorique et satirique ed Hans Robert Jauss, in Grundriss der romanischen ...
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... Chaucerian syntax. In following his models Lydgate and Chaucer (repeatedly identified by E.K. as a source of old words), Spenser was felt by Sidney to have gone too far in his experiments (ed 1973b:112); and the famous rebuke by Jonson ...
... Chaucerian syntax. In following his models Lydgate and Chaucer (repeatedly identified by E.K. as a source of old words), Spenser was felt by Sidney to have gone too far in his experiments (ed 1973b:112); and the famous rebuke by Jonson ...
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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