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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... knight Ranaldo drink of the fount of disdain, while having the beautiful Angelica drink of the fount of love; spying Ranaldo asleep, the bewitched lady showers the knight with flower petals, but he is unmoved by this pass and flees her ...
... knight Ranaldo drink of the fount of disdain, while having the beautiful Angelica drink of the fount of love; spying Ranaldo asleep, the bewitched lady showers the knight with flower petals, but he is unmoved by this pass and flees her ...
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... knight' (ii argument). The dead knight's lady narrates the first part of this story, telling Calidore that they had happened upon a pair of lovers (Aladine and Priscilla) 'in joyous jolliment/Of their franke loves' (16), and that her knight ...
... knight' (ii argument). The dead knight's lady narrates the first part of this story, telling Calidore that they had happened upon a pair of lovers (Aladine and Priscilla) 'in joyous jolliment/Of their franke loves' (16), and that her knight ...
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... knight (ii 7); Priscilla must be persuaded by Calidore to help carry her lover ('let it not you seeme disgrace,/To ... knight's lady finds words to honor Priscilla's beauty while salving her own wounded self-esteem: 'Faire was the Ladie ...
... knight (ii 7); Priscilla must be persuaded by Calidore to help carry her lover ('let it not you seeme disgrace,/To ... knight's lady finds words to honor Priscilla's beauty while salving her own wounded self-esteem: 'Faire was the Ladie ...
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... knight humanity in general, that the serpent is the Church of Rome and the knight the Christian church in the sixteenth century, that the serpent is the Roman Empire and the knight the Christian church in the first century, that the ...
... knight humanity in general, that the serpent is the Church of Rome and the knight the Christian church in the sixteenth century, that the serpent is the Roman Empire and the knight the Christian church in the first century, that the ...
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... knight may stay without a lady. A young knight claims Amoret for his own, and is defeated by Britomart, who then pities him, reveals herself as a woman, and claims her right as a woman to include him as her companion. Amoret and ...
... knight may stay without a lady. A young knight claims Amoret for his own, and is defeated by Britomart, who then pities him, reveals herself as a woman, and claims her right as a woman to include him as her companion. Amoret and ...
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