The Spenser EncyclopediaA.C. Hamilton 'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains |
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A.C. Hamilton. A. Abessa, Corceca, Kirkrapine These figures appear among the representatives of evil whom Una confronts ... appears, she is following a heavily traveled path at the foot of an ancient mountain. She carries a 'pot of water ...
A.C. Hamilton. A. Abessa, Corceca, Kirkrapine These figures appear among the representatives of evil whom Una confronts ... appears, she is following a heavily traveled path at the foot of an ancient mountain. She carries a 'pot of water ...
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... appear to have exerted any direct influence on FQ IV–VI. Alabaster's poem remained in manuscript until 1979. The young Milton, however, appears to have read it and made use of it in composing his own miniature Latin epic on the ...
... appear to have exerted any direct influence on FQ IV–VI. Alabaster's poem remained in manuscript until 1979. The young Milton, however, appears to have read it and made use of it in composing his own miniature Latin epic on the ...
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... appears to assume that everything he says emanates from, and ultimately returns to, an ideal meaning that is beyond the figurative distortions of language; and on the other hand, the author recognizes this assumption to be false because ...
... appears to assume that everything he says emanates from, and ultimately returns to, an ideal meaning that is beyond the figurative distortions of language; and on the other hand, the author recognizes this assumption to be false because ...
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... appears to reverse the order and make history primary; as a consequence, the moral vision of the poem must wait upon the ambiguities of the actual world. Some readers have felt that the historical allegory, besides giving Book v a more ...
... appears to reverse the order and make history primary; as a consequence, the moral vision of the poem must wait upon the ambiguities of the actual world. Some readers have felt that the historical allegory, besides giving Book v a more ...
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... appear in his essay The Poet,' written some time between 1841 and 1843, as evidence for the Platonic belief that 'the ... appears yet again in English Traits (1856) as an example of Platonic thought in English literature. Disagreement ...
... appear in his essay The Poet,' written some time between 1841 and 1843, as evidence for the Platonic belief that 'the ... appears yet again in English Traits (1856) as an example of Platonic thought in English literature. Disagreement ...
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