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... epic simile ; and so whatever assumptions it makes about feeling are intended to have universal significance . As illustrations of concepts such as joy , tenderness , or conflict , the epic simile must not be too specific in its details ...
... epic simile ; and so whatever assumptions it makes about feeling are intended to have universal significance . As illustrations of concepts such as joy , tenderness , or conflict , the epic simile must not be too specific in its details ...
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... epic simile , for example , very often begins and ends with a stanza ; so do the other descriptive schemes . If Spenser is describing an action , he breaks it up into scenes , one to a stanza . In fact , he looks upon the limits of the ...
... epic simile , for example , very often begins and ends with a stanza ; so do the other descriptive schemes . If Spenser is describing an action , he breaks it up into scenes , one to a stanza . In fact , he looks upon the limits of the ...
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... epic simile , all spring into independent existence through their tectonic form . The action itself becomes a succession of scenes instead of a continuous flow of description . The alexandrine at the end of each stanza effectually ...
... epic simile , all spring into independent existence through their tectonic form . The action itself becomes a succession of scenes instead of a continuous flow of description . The alexandrine at the end of each stanza effectually ...
Contents
DREAM IMAGERY AND ALLEGORY | 5 |
THE ANTHROPOCENTRIC POINT OF VIEW | 60 |
THE IMAGE AS SYMBOL | 90 |
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action adjectives allegory Allen Tate anthropocentric appearance Archimago beauty Belphoebe Bower of Bliss Britomart C.S. Lewis Calidore canto color concept contemplation contrast course critics cronographiae cruell decorative delight describe descriptive schemes doth dream world Edmund Spenser effect Elizabethan emongst emotional epic simile evil example experience Faerie Queene fairy fairyland fayre feeling figure Florimell Garden of Adonis give golden goodly grace grownd human idea imagination kind Kubla Khan light Marinell meaning metaphor mind moral narrative nature night objects Orlando Furioso ornament painter painting paradise pattern periphrasis pictorial picture plaine pleasure poem poet poet's poetic poetry portrait purpose Puttenham quality of Spenser's reader reality reason Renaissance rhetorical romance scene seemd seems sense sensuous details shade sight significance simply soul spatial Spenser Spenser's imagery stanza stock image stock response style suggests surface symbolic tale tapestry things transl trees University Press vision whole word