The Spenser EncyclopediaA.C. Hamilton 'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains |
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... takes one of the babes and names her. The goddesses here become representatives of Renaissance or Spenserian didacticism. Diana has her babe 'upbrought in perfect Maydenhed,/And of her selfe her name Belphoebe red'; Venus takes hers to ...
... takes one of the babes and names her. The goddesses here become representatives of Renaissance or Spenserian didacticism. Diana has her babe 'upbrought in perfect Maydenhed,/And of her selfe her name Belphoebe red'; Venus takes hers to ...
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... takes place between narrator and guide suggests to the reader a range of interpretations that is authorized (and limited) from inside the text, thus providing the reader with a model of how to respond. The title of the Psychomachia ...
... takes place between narrator and guide suggests to the reader a range of interpretations that is authorized (and limited) from inside the text, thus providing the reader with a model of how to respond. The title of the Psychomachia ...
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... takes up only a small portion of the action, some way must be found to make all other episodes and stories conform ... take place when the Christian paladins are separated by the enchantress Armida are to be seen as allegories of the ...
... takes up only a small portion of the action, some way must be found to make all other episodes and stories conform ... take place when the Christian paladins are separated by the enchantress Armida are to be seen as allegories of the ...
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... takes her (as a replacement for her lost son, Cupid) to the Garden of Adonis, where she is brought up as the companion of Pleasure, the child of Cupid and Psyche. This Venus is the good Venus of the Renaissance mythographers: her ...
... takes her (as a replacement for her lost son, Cupid) to the Garden of Adonis, where she is brought up as the companion of Pleasure, the child of Cupid and Psyche. This Venus is the good Venus of the Renaissance mythographers: her ...
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... take on any life as a character. Amoret's adventures in IV repeat the theme of rescue and separation, and she is twice ... takes Amoret as her companion in the first half of IV, the exchange suggests a passage from childhood to maturity ...
... take on any life as a character. Amoret's adventures in IV repeat the theme of rescue and separation, and she is twice ... takes Amoret as her companion in the first half of IV, the exchange suggests a passage from childhood to maturity ...
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