Samuel BeckettHarold Bloom Sixteen critical essays on the Elizabethan poet and his works. |
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Page 35
... Venus , and her victims , Mordant wallowing in his blood , Cymochles , Verdant , have something of a dead , wasted , or frustrated Adonis about them . Mammon is an old man with a daughter , Philotime . Much of the symbolism of the third ...
... Venus , and her victims , Mordant wallowing in his blood , Cymochles , Verdant , have something of a dead , wasted , or frustrated Adonis about them . Mammon is an old man with a daughter , Philotime . Much of the symbolism of the third ...
Page 86
... Venus ' rites . But when he runs away from home , irked by his mother's chidings , his actions cease to be subordinated to the demands of the natural order , and become instigations to chaos . This runaway Cupid may be described in the ...
... Venus ' rites . But when he runs away from home , irked by his mother's chidings , his actions cease to be subordinated to the demands of the natural order , and become instigations to chaos . This runaway Cupid may be described in the ...
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... Venus . Their myth possesses a certain logic perceived after the fact as analogous to the logic behind Spenser's own story of the Thames and the Medway . The ocean in the Venus story becomes identified with the infinity of the rivers or ...
... Venus . Their myth possesses a certain logic perceived after the fact as analogous to the logic behind Spenser's own story of the Thames and the Medway . The ocean in the Venus story becomes identified with the infinity of the rivers or ...
Contents
The Structure of Allegory in Books I and II | 41 |
Mutability and the Theme | 57 |
The Marriage of the Thames | 73 |
Copyright | |
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