The Spenser EncyclopediaA.C. Hamilton Routledge, 1 lip 2020 - 880 'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains Edmund Spenser remains one of Britain's most famous poets. With nearly 700 entries this Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive one-stop reference tool for: * appreciating Spenser's poetry in the context of his age and our own * understanding the language, themes and characters of the poems * easy to find entries arranged by subject. |
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... seems to mean that the internal shock of so much cold water causes hypothermia and death. But in terms of psycho-machia, both Mortdant (death-giving) and Amavia (love of life) are internal impulses of the soul. Long indulgence of ...
... seems to mean that the internal shock of so much cold water causes hypothermia and death. But in terms of psycho-machia, both Mortdant (death-giving) and Amavia (love of life) are internal impulses of the soul. Long indulgence of ...
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... seems that associations derived from the Actaeon passage have begun to lead a life of their own. In II iii 20–42, where Belphoebe and Braggadocchio meet, there are similarities to Ovid's text: a beautiful lady, described in sonneteer's ...
... seems that associations derived from the Actaeon passage have begun to lead a life of their own. In II iii 20–42, where Belphoebe and Braggadocchio meet, there are similarities to Ovid's text: a beautiful lady, described in sonneteer's ...
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... seems to hint, his fiction results from verbal exuberance or free play that will disconcert readers looking only for a serious mimesis of the worlds of history and nature. His gardens of Adonis may thus be regarded as a defense of the ...
... seems to hint, his fiction results from verbal exuberance or free play that will disconcert readers looking only for a serious mimesis of the worlds of history and nature. His gardens of Adonis may thus be regarded as a defense of the ...
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... seems to be a contradiction between the artificial process of calcination and the natural phenomenon of lightning, which was commonly believed to consume the insides of those it struck (Heninger 1960:79). Throughout The Faerie Queene ...
... seems to be a contradiction between the artificial process of calcination and the natural phenomenon of lightning, which was commonly believed to consume the insides of those it struck (Heninger 1960:79). Throughout The Faerie Queene ...
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... seems unlikely that Leicester terminated Spenser's service merely because he had indiscreetly satirized Burghley, Alençon, and Simier in the early version of Mother Hubberd. That theory is based in large measure on the mistaken premise ...
... seems unlikely that Leicester terminated Spenser's service merely because he had indiscreetly satirized Burghley, Alençon, and Simier in the early version of Mother Hubberd. That theory is based in large measure on the mistaken premise ...
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