The Spenser EncyclopediaA.C. Hamilton 'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains |
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... Spenserian stanzas, caused him to call for a similar translation of The Faerie Queene to overcome the obstacle of Spenser's language (Brown 1805). No such effort was forthcoming, however, and in 1817 the North American Review reiterated ...
... Spenserian stanzas, caused him to call for a similar translation of The Faerie Queene to overcome the obstacle of Spenser's language (Brown 1805). No such effort was forthcoming, however, and in 1817 the North American Review reiterated ...
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... Spenser's language. Milton uses characteristically Spenserian items such as areede 'counsel,' beldame, maugre, unweeting, and yclept, especially in his early poetry, though he passes by the more extreme forms of dialectal archaism, and ...
... Spenser's language. Milton uses characteristically Spenserian items such as areede 'counsel,' beldame, maugre, unweeting, and yclept, especially in his early poetry, though he passes by the more extreme forms of dialectal archaism, and ...
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... Spenserian temperance is not, in its moral aspect, Aristotle's balance point between excess and defect but the rejection of Satanic temptation such as Christ's in Matthew 4.1– 11, an incident reflected in Guyon's experience in the house ...
... Spenserian temperance is not, in its moral aspect, Aristotle's balance point between excess and defect but the rejection of Satanic temptation such as Christ's in Matthew 4.1– 11, an incident reflected in Guyon's experience in the house ...
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