The Spenser EncyclopediaA.C. Hamilton 'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains |
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... Early examples are Macrobius' Commentary on the Dream of Scipio (late 4th to early 5th c AD) and Martianus Capella's Marriage of Mercury and Philology (5th c AD), the latter being an allegorical treatise on the seven liberal arts that ...
... Early examples are Macrobius' Commentary on the Dream of Scipio (late 4th to early 5th c AD) and Martianus Capella's Marriage of Mercury and Philology (5th c AD), the latter being an allegorical treatise on the seven liberal arts that ...
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... early 5th c). The old assumptions that were used (and would continue to be used for Virgil and Ovid) to justify fanciful interpretations of nonallegorical works eventually influenced the poets themselves to become the basis of a new ...
... early 5th c). The old assumptions that were used (and would continue to be used for Virgil and Ovid) to justify fanciful interpretations of nonallegorical works eventually influenced the poets themselves to become the basis of a new ...
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... early cantos (eg, the issue of monopolies in the episode of the tollbridge, ii 5–19, or the threat of insurrection in the Giant with the scales, ii 29–54); but in the second half, the primary purpose of such episodes (eg, the trial of ...
... early cantos (eg, the issue of monopolies in the episode of the tollbridge, ii 5–19, or the threat of insurrection in the Giant with the scales, ii 29–54); but in the second half, the primary purpose of such episodes (eg, the trial of ...
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... early poetry, though he passes by the more extreme forms of dialectal archaism, and the older morphological and syntactical oddities which Spenser had pressed into service. The 1679 folio edition of Spenser's works appends 'A Glossary ...
... early poetry, though he passes by the more extreme forms of dialectal archaism, and the older morphological and syntactical oddities which Spenser had pressed into service. The 1679 folio edition of Spenser's works appends 'A Glossary ...
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