The Spenser EncyclopediaA.C. Hamilton 'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains |
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... poetic tradition inform the Acidalian scenario. Boiardo and Petrarch, resources already adopted and adapted by Spenser's more immediate predecessors, suggest Acidale's foreconceit in scenes that point us towards these poets' own great ...
... poetic tradition inform the Acidalian scenario. Boiardo and Petrarch, resources already adopted and adapted by Spenser's more immediate predecessors, suggest Acidale's foreconceit in scenes that point us towards these poets' own great ...
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... poet with the meaning we ourselves find in it. It is unlikely that the hesitation was Emerson's. That Alcott's estimate of Spenser as a moralist prevailed over Emerson's appreciation of his poetic genius is borne out by Emerson's ...
... poet with the meaning we ourselves find in it. It is unlikely that the hesitation was Emerson's. That Alcott's estimate of Spenser as a moralist prevailed over Emerson's appreciation of his poetic genius is borne out by Emerson's ...
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... poetic quotations, for Thoreau was widely read, especially in English poetry. The use of Spenser quotations beyond the more usual limit of FQ I might have some relation to the American edition published in the year of the trip. The ...
... poetic quotations, for Thoreau was widely read, especially in English poetry. The use of Spenser quotations beyond the more usual limit of FQ I might have some relation to the American edition published in the year of the trip. The ...
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... poets end their sonnet sequences with anacreontic poems. Their model seems to have been Ronsard, whose 'Sonnets a diverses ... poetic rapture (Jonson ed 1925–52, 8:637; Michelangeli 1922:99–100). For Spenser, however serious its function ...
... poets end their sonnet sequences with anacreontic poems. Their model seems to have been Ronsard, whose 'Sonnets a diverses ... poetic rapture (Jonson ed 1925–52, 8:637; Michelangeli 1922:99–100). For Spenser, however serious its function ...
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... poetic in his time. With other inflections there can be no doubt. The normal infinitive and presenttense plural form of the verb to know was then know or knowe (with the final -e not pronounced). In using the form knowen, Spenser ...
... poetic in his time. With other inflections there can be no doubt. The normal infinitive and presenttense plural form of the verb to know was then know or knowe (with the final -e not pronounced). In using the form knowen, Spenser ...
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