Samuel BeckettHarold Bloom Sixteen critical essays on the Elizabethan poet and his works. |
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... knight as he leaves upon his adventure ' with God to frend ' . The opening episode of Book II shows Guyon aroused to wrath by Archimago who seeks through Duessa ' to deceiue good knights , / And draw them from pursuit of praise and fame ...
... knight as he leaves upon his adventure ' with God to frend ' . The opening episode of Book II shows Guyon aroused to wrath by Archimago who seeks through Duessa ' to deceiue good knights , / And draw them from pursuit of praise and fame ...
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... Knight is first purged of sin in the house of Penance ; later in the holy Hospital he is taught to frame his life in ... Knight's agony in a dark lowly place where he diets with fasting until he ' had past the paines of hell , and long ...
... Knight is first purged of sin in the house of Penance ; later in the holy Hospital he is taught to frame his life in ... Knight's agony in a dark lowly place where he diets with fasting until he ' had past the paines of hell , and long ...
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... knight ' quite molten into lust and pleasure lewd ' ( II.xii.73 ) . The heavenly music which lifts man above himself contrasts with the earthly music which binds him to his senses : the pleasures which fulfil man for further duties ...
... knight ' quite molten into lust and pleasure lewd ' ( II.xii.73 ) . The heavenly music which lifts man above himself contrasts with the earthly music which binds him to his senses : the pleasures which fulfil man for further duties ...
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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