The Spenser EncyclopediaA.C. Hamilton 'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains |
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... Spenser criticism following an earlier period that had been monumentalized by the Johns Hopkins Variorum Edition of Spenser (1932–49). With pardonable exaggeration, John Erskine Hankins wrote in 1971 (he was addressing Spenser critics ...
... Spenser criticism following an earlier period that had been monumentalized by the Johns Hopkins Variorum Edition of Spenser (1932–49). With pardonable exaggeration, John Erskine Hankins wrote in 1971 (he was addressing Spenser critics ...
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... Spenserian themes and characters have been discerned in his works, as they have been, though to a lesser degree, in the writings of Melville, who shared his enthusiasm for Spenser but not his sensibility. Melville's ironic use of Spenserian ...
... Spenserian themes and characters have been discerned in his works, as they have been, though to a lesser degree, in the writings of Melville, who shared his enthusiasm for Spenser but not his sensibility. Melville's ironic use of Spenserian ...
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... Spenser at Court.' Others among the Transcendentalists who made reference to Spenser were Margaret Fuller in Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845), where she extolled The Faerie Queene for its delineation of female character, and Henry ...
... Spenser at Court.' Others among the Transcendentalists who made reference to Spenser were Margaret Fuller in Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845), where she extolled The Faerie Queene for its delineation of female character, and Henry ...
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... Spenser's part comes second to an instinctive imitation of admired masters—the very popularity of Chaucer had kept near-obsolete words alive in poetry. Spenser did not distort the language by favoring the forms of the past, but his ...
... Spenser's part comes second to an instinctive imitation of admired masters—the very popularity of Chaucer had kept near-obsolete words alive in poetry. Spenser did not distort the language by favoring the forms of the past, but his ...
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