The Spenser EncyclopediaA.C. Hamilton 'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains |
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... become her enemy (iii 15, 21, 30), Una embodies fidelity—issuing in the charity that 'suffreth long,' 'seketh not her owne things,' and 'doeth never fall away' (I Cor 13.4–8). By placing this episode shortly after Redcrosse becomes ...
... become her enemy (iii 15, 21, 30), Una embodies fidelity—issuing in the charity that 'suffreth long,' 'seketh not her owne things,' and 'doeth never fall away' (I Cor 13.4–8). By placing this episode shortly after Redcrosse becomes ...
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... becomes more than unconscious attraction: it becomes personified. As memorials to the dead or dying god, the gardens at the same time anticipate his rebirth: naturalistically and ritualistically they affirm the repetition that is ...
... becomes more than unconscious attraction: it becomes personified. As memorials to the dead or dying god, the gardens at the same time anticipate his rebirth: naturalistically and ritualistically they affirm the repetition that is ...
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... becomes a symbol of the Many, and the narrative (in the traditional sense of the story-line) becomes the realm of the One, that is, the path on which the type moves towards the achievement of individual identity. In such a view, the ...
... becomes a symbol of the Many, and the narrative (in the traditional sense of the story-line) becomes the realm of the One, that is, the path on which the type moves towards the achievement of individual identity. In such a view, the ...
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... becomes the union of the Jungian animus and anima. Moreover, FQ I is said to describe a 'psychotherapeutic discipline' by which the reader's own personality can be integrated. Another attempt to find esoteric meanings in The Faerie ...
... becomes the union of the Jungian animus and anima. Moreover, FQ I is said to describe a 'psychotherapeutic discipline' by which the reader's own personality can be integrated. Another attempt to find esoteric meanings in The Faerie ...
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... becomes the target of Spenser's wit. The Ape who stands 'uprearing hy/Upon his tiptoes' (663–4), wearing 'an old ... become King of France, the Fox voices a long complaint concerning his exclusion from 'our fathers heritage' (124–72) ...
... becomes the target of Spenser's wit. The Ape who stands 'uprearing hy/Upon his tiptoes' (663–4), wearing 'an old ... become King of France, the Fox voices a long complaint concerning his exclusion from 'our fathers heritage' (124–72) ...
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