Samuel BeckettHarold Bloom Sixteen critical essays on the Elizabethan poet and his works. |
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... origins , and miraculous coincidences , seems to admit of some radical doubt , a doubt which involves the ques- tioning of its most central images . The Proem invokes a fruitful or natural connection between origin and issue , in the ...
... origins , and miraculous coincidences , seems to admit of some radical doubt , a doubt which involves the ques- tioning of its most central images . The Proem invokes a fruitful or natural connection between origin and issue , in the ...
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... origin of the sacred pre - text , but the romance origin must be seen as a powerfully sustained challenge to that aspiration — indeed , as the inevita- ble displacement of sacred origin . The multiplicity of beginnings in The Faerie ...
... origin of the sacred pre - text , but the romance origin must be seen as a powerfully sustained challenge to that aspiration — indeed , as the inevita- ble displacement of sacred origin . The multiplicity of beginnings in The Faerie ...
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... origin in The Faerie Queene are imbued with a secondariness that cannot be said to characterize the idea of the true origin . The well or stream as image of origin participates in the causative structure of the poem by immediately ...
... origin in The Faerie Queene are imbued with a secondariness that cannot be said to characterize the idea of the true origin . The well or stream as image of origin participates in the causative structure of the poem by immediately ...
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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