The Spenser EncyclopediaA.C. Hamilton 'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains |
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... represents, primarily, the preReformation plundering of the church in England by Rome. More specifically, he diverts ... represent particular instances of a timeless evil, for Kirkrapine's scriptural lineage also includes the sons of Eli ...
... represents, primarily, the preReformation plundering of the church in England by Rome. More specifically, he diverts ... represent particular instances of a timeless evil, for Kirkrapine's scriptural lineage also includes the sons of Eli ...
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... represent different people, each defined by a specific context. The Ape in Mother Hubberd appears to have been ... represents two historical figures in different contexts. At the beginning of the poem, Alençon is parodied not as a ...
... represent different people, each defined by a specific context. The Ape in Mother Hubberd appears to have been ... represents two historical figures in different contexts. At the beginning of the poem, Alençon is parodied not as a ...
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... represent vices in Agramante, the Christian knights virtues in Charlemagne. No such comprehensive scheme troubled ... represents for Tasso one man in pursuit of the good; and the romance adventures that take place when the Christian ...
... represent vices in Agramante, the Christian knights virtues in Charlemagne. No such comprehensive scheme troubled ... represents for Tasso one man in pursuit of the good; and the romance adventures that take place when the Christian ...
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... represents mankind (see ii 2) tainted at birth by original sin (Rom 5.12–21, 39 Articles 9, Hamilton 1958b:157–8 ... represent, to borrow Milton's phrase, 'that greater man' who escaped inheriting original sin by being born of an ...
... represents mankind (see ii 2) tainted at birth by original sin (Rom 5.12–21, 39 Articles 9, Hamilton 1958b:157–8 ... represent, to borrow Milton's phrase, 'that greater man' who escaped inheriting original sin by being born of an ...
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... represent an affirmation of the virtue. Amoret's adventures in Book IV are thus contained within the frame of her ... represents married love in the poem. Up to this point, there is no possibility of judging Amoret's nature. With the ...
... represent an affirmation of the virtue. Amoret's adventures in Book IV are thus contained within the frame of her ... represents married love in the poem. Up to this point, there is no possibility of judging Amoret's nature. With the ...
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Acrasia Aeneid allegory allusions Amoret Amoretti appears Archimago Ariosto Artegall Arthur Arthurian Beast beauty Bellay Belphoebe Bible Book Bower of Bliss Britomart Busirane Calidore canto castle century characters chastity Chaucer Christian classical Colin Clout commentary Complaints contemporary court courtesy Cupid divine dragon Duessa eclogue edition Elizabeth Elizabethan emblem England epic episode Epithalamion Faerie Queene figure Florimell Garden of Adonis grace Guyon heavenly hero holiness human ideal imitation interpretation John knight lady Latin Letter to Raleigh literary London lover marriage meaning medieval moral Mother Hubberd Muses Mutabilitie myth narrative nature Neoplatonic Orlando furioso Ovid pastoral Petrarch poem poet poet's poetic poetry praise Prayer proem prose quest reader Redcrosse Redcrosse's reference Reformation Renaissance romance Rome Scudamour Shepheardes Calender Sidney sonnet Spenser Spenserian stanza story suggests symbolic Tale Timias tradition translation University Venus verse viii virgin virtue vision