The Spenser EncyclopediaA.C. Hamilton 'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains |
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... interpret allegorically a tear in her garment at the place where man had been figured. It is to this garment that Spenser refers in his description of the ineffable numinousness of his Dame Nature's veil. In Natura's lessons on ...
... interpret allegorically a tear in her garment at the place where man had been figured. It is to this garment that Spenser refers in his description of the ineffable numinousness of his Dame Nature's veil. In Natura's lessons on ...
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... interpretation seems to depend on the pervasive notions of hierarchy and mutability rather than on alchemy. More ... interpreted medieval romances such as the Romance of the Rose and Amadis of Gaul as alchemical allegories, and the ...
... interpretation seems to depend on the pervasive notions of hierarchy and mutability rather than on alchemy. More ... interpreted medieval romances such as the Romance of the Rose and Amadis of Gaul as alchemical allegories, and the ...
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... interpretation of certain symbols and events, but it rests finally on a suggestive but unproven link between Spenser and the Hermetic 'mystical politics' of Bruno (BrooksDavies 1983). Here, the alchemical wedding of Redcrosse and Una is ...
... interpretation of certain symbols and events, but it rests finally on a suggestive but unproven link between Spenser and the Hermetic 'mystical politics' of Bruno (BrooksDavies 1983). Here, the alchemical wedding of Redcrosse and Una is ...
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... interpreted by Greenlaw (1910) as Spenser's explanation to Leicester (the shepherd) that he (the gnat) had merely ... interpretation, the poet's warning would have been Mother Hubberds Tale, a political allegory probably first written ...
... interpreted by Greenlaw (1910) as Spenser's explanation to Leicester (the shepherd) that he (the gnat) had merely ... interpretation, the poet's warning would have been Mother Hubberds Tale, a political allegory probably first written ...
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... interpretation when the story is over, in allegory we find only the iconic rudiments of an interpretation we must build for ourselves, within certain constraints, as we proceed. This has two important consequences: it allows an ...
... interpretation when the story is over, in allegory we find only the iconic rudiments of an interpretation we must build for ourselves, within certain constraints, as we proceed. This has two important consequences: it allows an ...
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