Samuel BeckettHarold Bloom Sixteen critical essays on the Elizabethan poet and his works. |
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Page 43
... meaning . And it is the pattern of inner meaning realized by the parallel structure of the first two books , rather than reducible historical background , which is a key to the allegory . By my reading , this parallel is more exact than ...
... meaning . And it is the pattern of inner meaning realized by the parallel structure of the first two books , rather than reducible historical background , which is a key to the allegory . By my reading , this parallel is more exact than ...
Page 143
... meanings are not equally valid or ultimate , metaphysically , but they are equally potent in the poem , and they imply each other . We lose something by insisting on any single meaning of a Spenserian image , for the reason that all the ...
... meanings are not equally valid or ultimate , metaphysically , but they are equally potent in the poem , and they imply each other . We lose something by insisting on any single meaning of a Spenserian image , for the reason that all the ...
Page 152
... meaning of both Lycidas and The Shepheardes Calender concerns the need for us to accept a nonliteral , invisible reality as the one most relevant to us as human beings . This reality , in both poems , is defined in the Christian terms ...
... meaning of both Lycidas and The Shepheardes Calender concerns the need for us to accept a nonliteral , invisible reality as the one most relevant to us as human beings . This reality , in both poems , is defined in the Christian terms ...
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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