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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... example, advises the reader of his De constantia (1584; Eng tr 1594), 'Looke into the holie Scripture, and you shall see that gardens had their beginning with the world, God himself appointing the first man his habitation therein, as ...
... example, advises the reader of his De constantia (1584; Eng tr 1594), 'Looke into the holie Scripture, and you shall see that gardens had their beginning with the world, God himself appointing the first man his habitation therein, as ...
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... example, Northrop Frye connects Redcrosse's red and white (silver) shield 'not only with the risen body of Christ and the sacramental symbolism which accompanies it, but with the union of the red and white roses in the Tudor dynasty ...
... example, Northrop Frye connects Redcrosse's red and white (silver) shield 'not only with the risen body of Christ and the sacramental symbolism which accompanies it, but with the union of the red and white roses in the Tudor dynasty ...
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... examples of allegorical interpretation: the commentary on Genesis in Augustine's Confessions (late 4th c), where it is said ... example of an allegory from the pre-Christian era is a narrative by Prodicus of Ceos (reported in Xenophon ...
... examples of allegorical interpretation: the commentary on Genesis in Augustine's Confessions (late 4th c), where it is said ... example of an allegory from the pre-Christian era is a narrative by Prodicus of Ceos (reported in Xenophon ...
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... example, Lilian Winstanley constructed a detailed allegory of the Reformation under Henry VIII; see also *Dixon.) Later arguments for detailed historical allegories include Kermode 1962 and 1964, and Hankins 1971. But it is important to ...
... example, Lilian Winstanley constructed a detailed allegory of the Reformation under Henry VIII; see also *Dixon.) Later arguments for detailed historical allegories include Kermode 1962 and 1964, and Hankins 1971. But it is important to ...
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... example of Platonic thought in English literature. Disagreement between Emerson and Alcott about evaluating Spenser, whether to assign 'poet' or 'moralist' as his primary title, may be inferred from a journal entry of October 1835 in ...
... example of Platonic thought in English literature. Disagreement between Emerson and Alcott about evaluating Spenser, whether to assign 'poet' or 'moralist' as his primary title, may be inferred from a journal entry of October 1835 in ...
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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