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... heroic endeavour in poetry was to compose for England a great poem - the heroic poem that each nation of Europe hoped for at that time as an expression of the youthful patriotism of a Renaissance state , the glory of its prince . Long ...
... heroic endeavour in poetry was to compose for England a great poem - the heroic poem that each nation of Europe hoped for at that time as an expression of the youthful patriotism of a Renaissance state , the glory of its prince . Long ...
Page 115
... heroic poem for Elizabeth's ' Britayne ' , heroic poems of a new kind had been composed in several European tongues . With the renaissance of classical learning the Aeneid , the Iliad and the Odyssey entered the minds of scholars and ...
... heroic poem for Elizabeth's ' Britayne ' , heroic poems of a new kind had been composed in several European tongues . With the renaissance of classical learning the Aeneid , the Iliad and the Odyssey entered the minds of scholars and ...
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... heroic quality . ) In the second phase , as Renaissance moves to Reformation , the mainspring of feeling and action in Europe came to draw on religious concern . Poetry was called on to serve the Church militant , alarmed by the ...
... heroic quality . ) In the second phase , as Renaissance moves to Reformation , the mainspring of feeling and action in Europe came to draw on religious concern . Poetry was called on to serve the Church militant , alarmed by the ...
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