The Spenser EncyclopediaA.C. Hamilton 'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains |
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... canto v, her wantonness anticipated by her servant Phaedria in canto vi, and finally encountered in canto xii, Acrasia is the enchantress who is the great enemy of temperance. She has caused the death of Mortdant, the consequent death ...
... canto v, her wantonness anticipated by her servant Phaedria in canto vi, and finally encountered in canto xii, Acrasia is the enchantress who is the great enemy of temperance. She has caused the death of Mortdant, the consequent death ...
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... canto expands the scope of Book v as the two knights join to attack injustice on an international scale. Their mistaken battle ends in a standoff because they are equal; like Arthur, Artegall (Arth+Fr égal equal) incorporates all the ...
... canto expands the scope of Book v as the two knights join to attack injustice on an international scale. Their mistaken battle ends in a standoff because they are equal; like Arthur, Artegall (Arth+Fr égal equal) incorporates all the ...
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... canto iii. The two episodes comprise two quaternions of Book IV, illustrating the idea that love must harmonize four rather than two sets of personalities, each set comprising complementary opposites (Nohrnberg 1976:621). But, unlike ...
... canto iii. The two episodes comprise two quaternions of Book IV, illustrating the idea that love must harmonize four rather than two sets of personalities, each set comprising complementary opposites (Nohrnberg 1976:621). But, unlike ...
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... canto ii, Guyon tries unsuccessfully to wash Ruddymane's 'guiltie' hands in the nymph's well. His explanations of why he cannot are 'corrected' by the Palmer: the indelibility arises not from any fault, either in the well, whose ...
... canto ii, Guyon tries unsuccessfully to wash Ruddymane's 'guiltie' hands in the nymph's well. His explanations of why he cannot are 'corrected' by the Palmer: the indelibility arises not from any fault, either in the well, whose ...
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... canto i, Britomart and Amoret ride along after leaving the house of Busirane, Britomart deceiving Amoret with her warlike male appearance, until they come to a castle where no knight may stay without a lady. A young knight claims Amoret ...
... canto i, Britomart and Amoret ride along after leaving the house of Busirane, Britomart deceiving Amoret with her warlike male appearance, until they come to a castle where no knight may stay without a lady. A young knight claims Amoret ...
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Acrasia Aeneid allegory allusions Amoret Amoretti appears Archimago Ariosto Artegall Arthur Arthurian Beast beauty Bellay Belphoebe Bible Book Bower of Bliss Britomart Busirane Calidore canto castle century characters chastity Chaucer Christian classical Colin Clout commentary Complaints contemporary court courtesy Cupid divine dragon Duessa eclogue edition Elizabeth Elizabethan emblem England epic episode Epithalamion Faerie Queene figure Florimell Garden of Adonis grace Guyon heavenly hero holiness human ideal imitation interpretation John knight lady Latin Letter to Raleigh literary London lover marriage meaning medieval moral Mother Hubberd Muses Mutabilitie myth narrative nature Neoplatonic Orlando furioso Ovid pastoral Petrarch poem poet poet's poetic poetry praise Prayer proem prose quest reader Redcrosse Redcrosse's reference Reformation Renaissance romance Rome Scudamour Shepheardes Calender Sidney sonnet Spenser Spenserian stanza story suggests symbolic Tale Timias tradition translation University Venus verse viii virgin virtue vision