The Spenser EncyclopediaA.C. Hamilton 'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains |
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... poetry (Dunlop 1980, Fowler 1970b). Like Spenser, several other Renaissance poets end their sonnet sequences with anacreontic poems. Their model seems to have been Ronsard, whose 'Sonnets a diverses personnes' (in his Oeuvres 5th ed ...
... poetry (Dunlop 1980, Fowler 1970b). Like Spenser, several other Renaissance poets end their sonnet sequences with anacreontic poems. Their model seems to have been Ronsard, whose 'Sonnets a diverses personnes' (in his Oeuvres 5th ed ...
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... poetry. Spenser did not distort the language by favoring the forms of the past, but his archaism served to perpetuate an already traditional vocabulary. Poets of later generations were to make grateful use of what was old in Spenser's ...
... poetry. Spenser did not distort the language by favoring the forms of the past, but his archaism served to perpetuate an already traditional vocabulary. Poets of later generations were to make grateful use of what was old in Spenser's ...
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... poetry. Cristoforo Landino in his edition of Horace's Opera (Florence 1482) had declared that variety is a means of pleasure in poetry. Consequently, Cintio could justify the episodic structure of romance narrative—its multiple plots ...
... poetry. Cristoforo Landino in his edition of Horace's Opera (Florence 1482) had declared that variety is a means of pleasure in poetry. Consequently, Cintio could justify the episodic structure of romance narrative—its multiple plots ...
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