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Page 79
... cantos of each Book can be shown to be extensively related to number - meaning , witness the regular entry at canto viii of Arthur and God's grace into the poem's action , bringing regeneration . Look also at the sixth canto of each ...
... cantos of each Book can be shown to be extensively related to number - meaning , witness the regular entry at canto viii of Arthur and God's grace into the poem's action , bringing regeneration . Look also at the sixth canto of each ...
Page 124
... canto by canto , and discuss it afterwards as we , the listeners , move onwards with the unfolding meaning . That is the best way of all and it was the Elizabethan way- witness the scene conjured up at Bryskett's cottage near Dublin ...
... canto by canto , and discuss it afterwards as we , the listeners , move onwards with the unfolding meaning . That is the best way of all and it was the Elizabethan way- witness the scene conjured up at Bryskett's cottage near Dublin ...
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... canto as a whole has shown us two examples of the use of the supernatural , or of magic , in romance . ' Confrontation with the imperfectly understood ' was a type of adventure important in the old chivalric romances , for instance that ...
... canto as a whole has shown us two examples of the use of the supernatural , or of magic , in romance . ' Confrontation with the imperfectly understood ' was a type of adventure important in the old chivalric romances , for instance that ...
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antiquity Arthur aspect beast beauty belongs Belphoebe Book Bowre bride Brydale day canto Catholic celebrated Christian Church classical classical antiquity Colin Clout cosmic court Cynthia death decorum delight Despair doth Earl earth eclogue Edmund Spenser Elizabeth Elizabethan end my Song England English epic Epithalamion Essex fable Faerie Queene flowers God's grace hath haue heavenly heroic poem honour imitation Ireland Irish justice Kilcolman knight lady land language learned legend Leicester Lettice Knollys London Lord Grey married meaning Merchant Taylors metaphor mind monarch moon Munster muse nature Neoplatonism noble nymphs pastoral pattern Petrarch Philip Sidney planet poem's poet poet's poetic present prince Prothalamion Raleigh reader realm Redcrosse region Renaissance rhyme rhythm romance royal sense sequence Shepheardes Calender shepherd shows sonnet Spenser's poetry stanza swans Temperaunce thou translated tribute Tudor Venus verse vertue Virgin virtue whole woodcut words