The Spenser EncyclopediaA.C. Hamilton 'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains |
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... suggests that the corruptions he embodies may also refer to Henry VIII's wholesale plundering of churches, abbeys, and monasteries, and to thefts committed by Elizabethan bishops and lay magnates. Although such implications are ...
... suggests that the corruptions he embodies may also refer to Henry VIII's wholesale plundering of churches, abbeys, and monasteries, and to thefts committed by Elizabethan bishops and lay magnates. Although such implications are ...
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A.C. Hamilton. make Spenser's figure the focus of the same rotation suggests a similar transcending of the ... suggest the difficulty of undertaking something new, of comprehending something we have not read. Near the beginning of his ...
A.C. Hamilton. make Spenser's figure the focus of the same rotation suggests a similar transcending of the ... suggest the difficulty of undertaking something new, of comprehending something we have not read. Near the beginning of his ...
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... suggests the purported despotism of Muslim rulers, and in the 'great wrongs' (viii 24) he inflicts through Adicia, he anticipates Grantorto, the 'great wrong' of canto xii. His maneating horses and raging wife represent qualities of an ...
... suggests the purported despotism of Muslim rulers, and in the 'great wrongs' (viii 24) he inflicts through Adicia, he anticipates Grantorto, the 'great wrong' of canto xii. His maneating horses and raging wife represent qualities of an ...
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... suggest a pun on sol 'sun'+dan 'master') is felled by Arthur, the true sun of justice he thought to control. Furthermore, the image of Phaethon suggests the pagan aspect of the Souldan, who is compared to Diomedes (31) and to Hippolytus ...
... suggest a pun on sol 'sun'+dan 'master') is felled by Arthur, the true sun of justice he thought to control. Furthermore, the image of Phaethon suggests the pagan aspect of the Souldan, who is compared to Diomedes (31) and to Hippolytus ...
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... suggests the beginnings of chastity that in Book III is the way of individuation, because it means not doing what comes naturally and having a strong sense of one's separateness from others. Adonis' story suggests the largely negative ...
... suggests the beginnings of chastity that in Book III is the way of individuation, because it means not doing what comes naturally and having a strong sense of one's separateness from others. Adonis' story suggests the largely negative ...
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