The Spenser EncyclopediaA.C. Hamilton 'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains |
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... reference works, modern reference works, Spenser's scholarship, 1579–1932 Upton, John Warton, Thomas, the younger Science alchemy animals, fabulous astronomy, astrology birds chronographia constellations cosmogony, cosmology Dee, John ...
... reference works, modern reference works, Spenser's scholarship, 1579–1932 Upton, John Warton, Thomas, the younger Science alchemy animals, fabulous astronomy, astrology birds chronographia constellations cosmogony, cosmology Dee, John ...
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... reference guide, and H.S.V.Jones' Spenser Handbook was half a century out of date. Four prerequisites seemed to me essential to the successful completion of a Spenser encyclopaedia. First, an editorial team responsible for the extended ...
... reference guide, and H.S.V.Jones' Spenser Handbook was half a century out of date. Four prerequisites seemed to me essential to the successful completion of a Spenser encyclopaedia. First, an editorial team responsible for the extended ...
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... reference works, modern tournaments BARNEY, STEPHEN A. University of California, Irvine reference works, Spenser's Troy BARTON, ANNE Trinity College, Cambridge Jonson, Ben BAWCUTT, PRISCILLA University of Liverpool Douglas, Gavin BAYLEY ...
... reference works, modern tournaments BARNEY, STEPHEN A. University of California, Irvine reference works, Spenser's Troy BARTON, ANNE Trinity College, Cambridge Jonson, Ben BAWCUTT, PRISCILLA University of Liverpool Douglas, Gavin BAYLEY ...
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... reference throughout Renaissance literature, Spenser's canon contains surprisingly few direct allusions to the so-called Royal Art. While Spenser exhibits a general knowledge of cosmogony, he has little interest in theories of matter ...
... reference throughout Renaissance literature, Spenser's canon contains surprisingly few direct allusions to the so-called Royal Art. While Spenser exhibits a general knowledge of cosmogony, he has little interest in theories of matter ...
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... reference, particularly when a character is meant to allude to the Queen. At other times, an allusive name or an iconographic element will indicate the reference. Occasionally the reader is alerted by a curious narrative detail, as when ...
... reference, particularly when a character is meant to allude to the Queen. At other times, an allusive name or an iconographic element will indicate the reference. Occasionally the reader is alerted by a curious narrative detail, as when ...
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