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      The Spenser Encyclopedia book

      The Spenser Encyclopedia

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      The Spenser Encyclopedia book

      Edited ByA.C. Hamilton
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 1991
      eBook Published 7 February 1991
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203167885
      Pages 880
      eBook ISBN 9780203167885
      Subjects Language & Literature, Reference & Information Science
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      Hamilton, A.C. (Ed.). (1991). The Spenser Encyclopedia (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203167885

      ABSTRACT

      'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains
      Edmund Spenser remains one of Britain's most famous poets. With nearly 700 entries this Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive one-stop reference tool for:
      * appreciating Spenser's poetry in the context of his age and our own
      * understanding the language, themes and characters of the poems
      * easy to find entries arranged by subject.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |10 pages

      Acidale

      chapter |6 pages

      Adonis, gardens of

      chapter |1 pages

      Aesculapius

      chapter |13 pages

      Agrippa

      chapter |19 pages

      alexandrine

      chapter |66 pages

      allegory, historical

      chapter |54 pages

      apples

      chapter |21 pages

      Arthur in The Faerie Queene

      chapter |3 pages

      Aylett, Robert

      chapter |3 pages

      baffling and degradation

      chapter |15 pages

      baroque

      chapter |21 pages

      Belphoebe

      chapter |7 pages

      birds

      chapter |5 pages

      Blandina, Turpine

      chapter |28 pages

      Boccaccio, Giovanni

      chapter |1 pages

      Boyle family

      chapter |1 pages

      Bracidas, Amidas

      chapter |4 pages

      Braggadocchio

      chapter |1 pages

      Briana

      chapter |25 pages

      bridges

      chapter |16 pages

      Bunyan, John

      chapter |21 pages

      Caelia

      chapter |27 pages

      canto

      chapter |15 pages

      Chaucer, Geoffrey

      chapter |2 pages

      Christine de Pisan

      chapter |5 pages

      chronicles

      chapter |30 pages

      Chrysogone

      chapter |1 pages

      Ciceronianism

      chapter |19 pages

      Circe

      chapter |13 pages

      Colin Clout

      chapter |12 pages

      Complaints

      chapter |13 pages

      Complaints: The Teares of the Muses

      chapter |6 pages

      Complaints: Visions

      chapter |7 pages

      constellations

      chapter |4 pages

      Corflambo, Poeana

      chapter |17 pages

      court

      chapter |41 pages

      Crabbe, George

      chapter |6 pages

      dialect

      chapter |9 pages

      Diana

      chapter |30 pages

      Dixon, John

      chapter |2 pages

      echo, resonance

      chapter |2 pages

      ecphrasis

      chapter |7 pages

      Eden

      chapter |29 pages

      Elizabeth, images of

      chapter |9 pages

      emblems

      chapter |21 pages

      Epithalamion epithalamium

      chapter |54 pages

      fabliau

      chapter |9 pages

      The Faerie Queene, Book V

      chapter |41 pages

      The Faerie Queene, Book VI

      chapter |1 pages

      Fanchin, Molanna

      chapter |1 pages

      Fanshawe, Richard

      chapter |34 pages

      fantasy literature

      chapter |17 pages

      foundlings

      chapter |14 pages

      French Renaissance literature

      chapter |39 pages

      Gascoigne, George

      chapter |4 pages

      Gray, Thomas

      chapter |15 pages

      Grey, Arthur, fourteenth Baron of Wilton

      chapter |16 pages

      Harington, John

      chapter |1 pages

      Henryson, Robert

      chapter |9 pages

      heraldry

      chapter |1 pages

      Herbert family

      chapter |6 pages

      Hercules

      chapter |70 pages

      hermits

      chapter |3 pages

      identity

      chapter |47 pages

      idols, idolatry

      chapter |23 pages

      Ireland, the historical context

      chapter |24 pages

      Joyce, James

      chapter |2 pages

      labyrinths, mazes

      chapter |7 pages

      Lamb, Charles

      chapter |7 pages

      language, general, and resources exploited in rhyme

      chapter |12 pages

      Latin literature

      chapter |3 pages

      letter as genre

      chapter |64 pages

      letters, Spenser’s and Harvey’s

      chapter |13 pages

      masque

      chapter |5 pages

      Medina, Elissa, Perissa

      chapter |10 pages

      Melville, Herman

      chapter |7 pages

      Mercury

      chapter |2 pages

      metaphor, simile

      chapter |10 pages

      Milton, John

      chapter |2 pages

      The Mirror for Magistrates

      chapter |5 pages

      mirrors

      chapter |5 pages

      Montemayor, Jorge de

      chapter |8 pages

      Munera, Pollente

      chapter |4 pages

      mutability

      chapter |33 pages

      mysteries

      chapter |26 pages

      narrator of The Faerie Queene

      chapter |74 pages

      neologism

      chapter |1 pages

      Peacham, Henry

      chapter |6 pages

      Peele, George

      chapter |5 pages

      Petrarch, Petrarchism

      chapter |3 pages

      Phaedria

      chapter |6 pages

      Philotime

      chapter |3 pages

      places, allegorical

      chapter |2 pages

      plants, herbs

      chapter |8 pages

      Platonism

      chapter |5 pages

      poet, role of the

      chapter |9 pages

      poet’s poet, the

      chapter |4 pages

      Ponsonby, William

      chapter |2 pages

      predestination

      chapter |12 pages

      primitivism

      chapter |4 pages

      Prothalamion

      chapter |14 pages

      proverbs

      chapter |4 pages

      psychology, Platonic

      chapter |8 pages

      psychomachia

      chapter |6 pages

      puritanism

      chapter |4 pages

      Pythagoras

      chapter |56 pages

      quest

      chapter |15 pages

      rhetoric

      chapter |6 pages

      rhyme

      chapter |37 pages

      Rich, Barnaby

      chapter |35 pages

      Rome

      chapter |55 pages

      Scudamore family

      chapter |1 pages

      ship imagery

      chapter |3 pages

      Sidney, Philip

      chapter |14 pages

      Sidney, Robert

      chapter |28 pages

      sonnet, sonnet sequence

      chapter |2 pages

      stones, precious

      chapter |19 pages

      style

      chapter |19 pages

      Teares of the Muses temperance

      chapter |18 pages

      time

      chapter |8 pages

      topos

      chapter |17 pages

      trees

      chapter |4 pages

      Turbervile, George

      chapter |1 pages

      Una’s lamb

      chapter |4 pages

      Upton, John

      chapter |7 pages

      Vanitie, Visions of the Worlds veils

      chapter |35 pages

      Verdant

      chapter |14 pages

      Visions of Bellay Visions of Petrarch

      chapter |62 pages

      Wilson, Thomas

      chapter |67 pages

      rati

      chapter |48 pages

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