The Spenser EncyclopediaA.C. Hamilton 'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains |
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... literary periods. Most major writers and most literary periods are included. This kind of entry has been extended to include Spenser's reputation in other countries such as France and Japan, though there are surprising omissions which ...
... literary periods. Most major writers and most literary periods are included. This kind of entry has been extended to include Spenser's reputation in other countries such as France and Japan, though there are surprising omissions which ...
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... literary taste of our country' (8[Jan]:50). The editor of the five-volume edition was George S.Hillard, attorney and literary critic. His preface makes quite clear his intention, to eliminate the 'learned rubbish' of the Todd edition ...
... literary taste of our country' (8[Jan]:50). The editor of the five-volume edition was George S.Hillard, attorney and literary critic. His preface makes quite clear his intention, to eliminate the 'learned rubbish' of the Todd edition ...
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... literary realism. William Dean Howells, the arch-realist who exerted great literary influence at the time, confessed in My Literary Passions (1895) that Lowell's praises made him want to read Spenser, but he found it impossible. Perhaps ...
... literary realism. William Dean Howells, the arch-realist who exerted great literary influence at the time, confessed in My Literary Passions (1895) that Lowell's praises made him want to read Spenser, but he found it impossible. Perhaps ...
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... literary mode of pastoral. We can measure the tension in this imposition and, more broadly, the tension in English humanism by noting E.K.'s ambivalence in his introductions and annotations to The Shepheardes Calender. He is clearly ...
... literary mode of pastoral. We can measure the tension in this imposition and, more broadly, the tension in English humanism by noting E.K.'s ambivalence in his introductions and annotations to The Shepheardes Calender. He is clearly ...
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... literary forms. In his Georgics, he suggests that social ideals can be achieved only through systematic effort analogous to farming; in the Aeneid (8.313–27), the Arcadian king Evander lays the symbolic foundation of the Augustan empire ...
... literary forms. In his Georgics, he suggests that social ideals can be achieved only through systematic effort analogous to farming; in the Aeneid (8.313–27), the Arcadian king Evander lays the symbolic foundation of the Augustan empire ...
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