The Spenser EncyclopediaA.C. Hamilton 'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains |
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... virtue in question to her accomplishments as Queen. The proems to the first three books in particular play suggestively with the idea that the attentive reader will discover the Queen in the fiction. FQ II proem 4 asserts that by ...
... virtue in question to her accomplishments as Queen. The proems to the first three books in particular play suggestively with the idea that the attentive reader will discover the Queen in the fiction. FQ II proem 4 asserts that by ...
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... virtue of chastity. Amoret's story runs from her birth and early education in the Garden of Adonis (III vi) to her final disappearance in IV ix, although we do not hear Scudamour's story of her courtship until IV x. Rescue and ...
... virtue of chastity. Amoret's story runs from her birth and early education in the Garden of Adonis (III vi) to her final disappearance in IV ix, although we do not hear Scudamour's story of her courtship until IV x. Rescue and ...
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... virtue of magnificence is incarnated by Arthur and derived from the supreme Aristotelian virtue of magnanimity, as the Letter to Raleigh makes clear. In contrast with this macrocosmic conception, there is the stereotyped narrative unit ...
... virtue of magnificence is incarnated by Arthur and derived from the supreme Aristotelian virtue of magnanimity, as the Letter to Raleigh makes clear. In contrast with this macrocosmic conception, there is the stereotyped narrative unit ...
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... virtue fully manifest in Caelia. In some instances, the outward appearance of a specific character is falsely duplicated: Archimago assumes the appearance of the Red Cross Knight so totally that the reader is warned that 'Saint George ...
... virtue fully manifest in Caelia. In some instances, the outward appearance of a specific character is falsely duplicated: Archimago assumes the appearance of the Red Cross Knight so totally that the reader is warned that 'Saint George ...
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... virtue, the moral range of temperance, the identity of justice and courtesy, and constancy as a culminating virtue. Holiness or religion is the first of Spenser's moral virtues because faith is the foundation of virtue (ST 2a2ae 161.5 ...
... virtue, the moral range of temperance, the identity of justice and courtesy, and constancy as a culminating virtue. Holiness or religion is the first of Spenser's moral virtues because faith is the foundation of virtue (ST 2a2ae 161.5 ...
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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