The Spenser EncyclopediaA.C. Hamilton 'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains |
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... authority to confer his laurels on himself. The inaugural scene for Petrarch's calling provides the valedictory for Spenser's: the poet who wins his laurels from others at the outset must nonetheless award them to himself in the ...
... authority to confer his laurels on himself. The inaugural scene for Petrarch's calling provides the valedictory for Spenser's: the poet who wins his laurels from others at the outset must nonetheless award them to himself in the ...
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... authorities and Christian authorities were seen to differ, many Renaissance writers, including Spenser, attempted to minimize or reconcile the difference, often in the process reading with a bias the texts they were reinterpreting. Thus ...
... authorities and Christian authorities were seen to differ, many Renaissance writers, including Spenser, attempted to minimize or reconcile the difference, often in the process reading with a bias the texts they were reinterpreting. Thus ...
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... hope that this action will alter the state of affairs definitively, irreversibly. In Virgil, Spenser found an authority endowed with both his own moral seriousness and his capacity for stubborn hope in temperate courage when faced.
... hope that this action will alter the state of affairs definitively, irreversibly. In Virgil, Spenser found an authority endowed with both his own moral seriousness and his capacity for stubborn hope in temperate courage when faced.
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... authority of the gods and are transformed as punishment. Arachne's tapestry, by contrast, presumes to challenge the authority of Pallas and to indict the gods for sexual riot and injustice. In her tapestry Jove, Neptune, Phoebus, and ...
... authority of the gods and are transformed as punishment. Arachne's tapestry, by contrast, presumes to challenge the authority of Pallas and to indict the gods for sexual riot and injustice. In her tapestry Jove, Neptune, Phoebus, and ...
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... authority it had acquired in all areas of secular knowledge, after similar adjustments, during the late Middle Ages. In Spenser criticism, claims for Aristotelian influence on The Faerie Queene have undergone the same correctives as ...
... authority it had acquired in all areas of secular knowledge, after similar adjustments, during the late Middle Ages. In Spenser criticism, claims for Aristotelian influence on The Faerie Queene have undergone the same correctives as ...
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