Spenser: SelectionsClarendon Press, 1956 - 208 pages |
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... allegory ; and the allegory symbolizes the warfare and victory of the Christian soul in the world . Allegory seems to have had a special attraction for Spenser . His first published work was a version of allegorical poems by Petrarch ...
... allegory ; and the allegory symbolizes the warfare and victory of the Christian soul in the world . Allegory seems to have had a special attraction for Spenser . His first published work was a version of allegorical poems by Petrarch ...
Page 9
... allegorical writing . The mere etymological 20 meaning of the word , allegory , -to talk of one thing and thereby convey another , -is too wide . The true sense is this , the employment of one set of agents and images to convey in ...
... allegorical writing . The mere etymological 20 meaning of the word , allegory , -to talk of one thing and thereby convey another , -is too wide . The true sense is this , the employment of one set of agents and images to convey in ...
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... allegories . Amongst the classics , the multitude of their gods either precluded allegory altogether , or else made everything allegory , as in the Hesiodic Theogonia ; for you can scarcely distinguish between power and the personifica ...
... allegories . Amongst the classics , the multitude of their gods either precluded allegory altogether , or else made everything allegory , as in the Hesiodic Theogonia ; for you can scarcely distinguish between power and the personifica ...
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