Samuel BeckettHarold Bloom Sixteen critical essays on the Elizabethan poet and his works. |
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Page 240
... death wounds . It is as though some of the violence of death's power enters man's anger against that power . But this anger is as much a rage against man's own susceptibil- ity to death , hence a rage against the self . And it is not ...
... death wounds . It is as though some of the violence of death's power enters man's anger against that power . But this anger is as much a rage against man's own susceptibil- ity to death , hence a rage against the self . And it is not ...
Page 241
... Death itself , whence the description of his thorough and impartial slaughter . Added to the impulse behind this depiction of Astrophel's rage against mortality is of course Spenser's own fury against death , both as mortality and as ...
... Death itself , whence the description of his thorough and impartial slaughter . Added to the impulse behind this depiction of Astrophel's rage against mortality is of course Spenser's own fury against death , both as mortality and as ...
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... death . The crucial point is that the pastoral world can neither cure itself nor defend itself against the violence of history . As Astrophel bleeds to death— " They stopt his wound ( too late to stop it was ) " ( 145 ) —the pastoral ...
... death . The crucial point is that the pastoral world can neither cure itself nor defend itself against the violence of history . As Astrophel bleeds to death— " They stopt his wound ( too late to stop it was ) " ( 145 ) —the pastoral ...
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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