The Spenser EncyclopediaA.C. Hamilton 'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains |
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... holiness SCHULER, ROBERT M. University of Victoria alchemy science SESSIONS, WILLIAM A. Georgia State University georgic Lucretius SHAPIRO, MARIANNE New York University sestina SHAVER, ANNE Denison University Diana The Faerie Queene ...
... holiness SCHULER, ROBERT M. University of Victoria alchemy science SESSIONS, WILLIAM A. Georgia State University georgic Lucretius SHAPIRO, MARIANNE New York University sestina SHAVER, ANNE Denison University Diana The Faerie Queene ...
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... holiness and spiritual error. Episodes such as these may persuade us, by extension, that a work conceals inside itself a clear train of thought that is carried through from beginning to end. In complex allegories, notably those of Dante ...
... holiness and spiritual error. Episodes such as these may persuade us, by extension, that a work conceals inside itself a clear train of thought that is carried through from beginning to end. In complex allegories, notably those of Dante ...
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... (holiness, temperance, chastity, etc) within which the interpretative game can be played. Thus, while specific interpretations cannot represent what the poet intended to mean, they do represent what the poet intended his readers to do ...
... (holiness, temperance, chastity, etc) within which the interpretative game can be played. Thus, while specific interpretations cannot represent what the poet intended to mean, they do represent what the poet intended his readers to do ...
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... Holiness and the house of Pride, the gardens of Adonis and Acrasia, Mount Acidale and Gloriana's court, break free of sequence and pair off in the mind as binary conceits; and the train of events through which these places are joined ...
... Holiness and the house of Pride, the gardens of Adonis and Acrasia, Mount Acidale and Gloriana's court, break free of sequence and pair off in the mind as binary conceits; and the train of events through which these places are joined ...
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... holiness, temperance, anger, or justice (see *personification). Allegorical imagery appears to fill in this lack, and thus to support the picture theory of language at a critical point, by confining abstract universals to visual forms ...
... holiness, temperance, anger, or justice (see *personification). Allegorical imagery appears to fill in this lack, and thus to support the picture theory of language at a critical point, by confining abstract universals to visual forms ...
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