The Spenser EncyclopediaA.C. Hamilton 'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains Edmund Spenser remains one of Britain's most famous poets. With nearly 700 entries this Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive one-stop reference tool for: * appreciating Spenser's poetry in the context of his age and our own * understanding the language, themes and characters of the poems * easy to find entries arranged by subject. |
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... court. One reason could be that the gardens represent a kind of elegiac epitome of a shepherds' calendar, so that the love that is nursed and ripens there shares in the pastoral idea of care for persons, animals, and things, because of ...
... court. One reason could be that the gardens represent a kind of elegiac epitome of a shepherds' calendar, so that the love that is nursed and ripens there shares in the pastoral idea of care for persons, animals, and things, because of ...
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... court in Mother Hubberds Tale (659–716, 794–921) suggests indebtedness to Agrippa's chapter 68, which describes life at court as 'wholye voyde of shame, and what naughtines so ever in any place is found in cruel beasts, al this seemeth ...
... court in Mother Hubberds Tale (659–716, 794–921) suggests indebtedness to Agrippa's chapter 68, which describes life at court as 'wholye voyde of shame, and what naughtines so ever in any place is found in cruel beasts, al this seemeth ...
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... court in 1579. Two attempts had been made to assassinate Simier, and rumor blamed Leicester. In retaliation, Simier informed the Queen that although the Earl objected to her marriage and pretended to be her disconsolate lover, he had ...
... court in 1579. Two attempts had been made to assassinate Simier, and rumor blamed Leicester. In retaliation, Simier informed the Queen that although the Earl objected to her marriage and pretended to be her disconsolate lover, he had ...
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... court, its narrative never comes close to portraying the Elizabethan court. It has been suggested that Calidore shadows Sidney or the Earl of Essex but in fact no heraldic or narrative details support such an identification. The ...
... court, its narrative never comes close to portraying the Elizabethan court. It has been suggested that Calidore shadows Sidney or the Earl of Essex but in fact no heraldic or narrative details support such an identification. The ...
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... Court.' Others among the Transcendentalists who made reference to Spenser were Margaret Fuller in Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845), where she extolled The Faerie Queene for its delineation of female character, and Henry David ...
... Court.' Others among the Transcendentalists who made reference to Spenser were Margaret Fuller in Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845), where she extolled The Faerie Queene for its delineation of female character, and Henry David ...
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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