Samuel BeckettHarold Bloom Sixteen critical essays on the Elizabethan poet and his works. |
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Page 74
... river marriages and their literary precedents . A little more than a century after Spenser published The Faerie Queene Daniel Defoe writes in a rather characteristic vein : " I shall sing you no Songs here of the River in the first ...
... river marriages and their literary precedents . A little more than a century after Spenser published The Faerie Queene Daniel Defoe writes in a rather characteristic vein : " I shall sing you no Songs here of the River in the first ...
Page 75
... river marriages , always basically symbolic . . . . Whether it is a case of direct Spen- serian influence or simply an historical coincidence , rivers and river symbolism became an important part of pageants about this time , and it is ...
... river marriages , always basically symbolic . . . . Whether it is a case of direct Spen- serian influence or simply an historical coincidence , rivers and river symbolism became an important part of pageants about this time , and it is ...
Page 76
... rivers are constantly changing and ever the same . The physical cycle describes a perfect circle : Ocean to cloud to rain to river and back to Ocean- " eterne in mutability . " The ocean is the girdle of the earth , the analogue to ...
... rivers are constantly changing and ever the same . The physical cycle describes a perfect circle : Ocean to cloud to rain to river and back to Ocean- " eterne in mutability . " The ocean is the girdle of the earth , the analogue to ...
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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