The Spenser EncyclopediaA.C. Hamilton 'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains |
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... divine beauty (for courtesy is an aesthetic of conduct), and a disturbance of divine harmony or agreement (courtesy is an art of making one's conduct agreeable to others). First is the analogy between the disruption of the Graces' dance ...
... divine beauty (for courtesy is an aesthetic of conduct), and a disturbance of divine harmony or agreement (courtesy is an art of making one's conduct agreeable to others). First is the analogy between the disruption of the Graces' dance ...
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... divine creator binding the forces of opposition and concord in the net of the logos. Like the Aeneid for its medieval interpreters, the Homeric epics were seen, through the veil of allegory, as providing a complete education. Homer thus ...
... divine creator binding the forces of opposition and concord in the net of the logos. Like the Aeneid for its medieval interpreters, the Homeric epics were seen, through the veil of allegory, as providing a complete education. Homer thus ...
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... Divine Comedy.) The dialogue that takes place between narrator and guide suggests to the reader a range of interpretations that is authorized (and limited) from inside the text, thus providing the reader with a model of how to respond ...
... Divine Comedy.) The dialogue that takes place between narrator and guide suggests to the reader a range of interpretations that is authorized (and limited) from inside the text, thus providing the reader with a model of how to respond ...
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... Divine Comedy (Beatrice), the Middle English Pearl, Francesco Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499), and, more recently, in Jung's concept of the image of the male soul as female 'anima.' Spenser's characterization of Alma as the ...
... Divine Comedy (Beatrice), the Middle English Pearl, Francesco Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499), and, more recently, in Jung's concept of the image of the male soul as female 'anima.' Spenser's characterization of Alma as the ...
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... divine and immanent divine, pantheistic world and inert world, possessed prophet and earthbound versifier. The absence of sharp divisions between metaphysical realms permitted the creation of a fairy world in which the status of ...
... divine and immanent divine, pantheistic world and inert world, possessed prophet and earthbound versifier. The absence of sharp divisions between metaphysical realms permitted the creation of a fairy world in which the status of ...
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