The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry Before 1600
express the values of their culture. Thus, epics often interweave the formation or lionization of a particular culture or nation ...
EPITHALAMION EDMUND SPENSER (1594) Written in 1594 as a celebration of his own nuptials to Elizabeth Boyle and published a year ...
an added dimension. It participates in, and simultane- ously evokes, a dynamic temporal symbolism. This helps to frame the poem’ ...
construction of the Psalter as well as Elizabeth’s rule and her connection to the Protestant scriptures. The biblical Psalms wer ...
Christian theologians such as Gregory the Great and Augustine of Hippo. At times closely related to ALLE- GORY, medieval Christi ...
manuscript with him at that time. The codex (volume of a manuscript) was written sometime between 960 and 980 C.E. by one scribe ...
C D 172 FA BL E A fable is a story in either verse or prose designed to convey a moral or lesson. PERSONIFICATION is a common de ...
fabliaux feature socially ambitious bourgeois mer- chants and artisans, and as such, many are also merci- less on social climber ...
for the better understanding is hereunto annexed,” addressed to SIR WALTER RALEIGH); and the seventh book, which is often merely ...
naming the serpent “Errour” in Book 1, canto 1, line 18 [1.1.18]). Because the narrative is written with a specifi c interpretat ...
elsewhere known as Gawain). Guyon, hearing the plaintive tale of Redcrosse’s alleged sexual assault on the “virgin” Duessa, hast ...
single-handed rescue of Amoret from the house of Busirane. In the 1590 conclusion, Scudamour (betrothed to Amoret) is reunited w ...
Blatant Beast, who abuse them verbally, and Envy’s serpent stings Artegall. Talus offers to chastise them, but Artegall restrain ...
by the beginning of a quest by a different hero. The fi rst of these heroes was a “tall clownishe yonge man” who took the quest ...
healed. While she is gone on this errand, Redcrosse, warned by a dwarf of the immense dungeons in Pride’s house, steals away bef ...
knight gets in some good blows, slashing at the drag- ons’s head and chopping off its tail, he is knocked down under the Tree of ...
night. In the morning, they depart, leaving the baby Ruddymane with Medina. Canto 3 begins by relating how a peasant named Bragg ...
(good memory). Eumnestes dwells in a library. Arthur enters and fi nds a CHRONICLE of Britain’s history. It lists all the kings, ...
colors, and he cannot escape his destiny as a fl esh-and- blood man with the complex emotional makeup that allows for his ultima ...
whose mirror produced the image of Artegall. Though Merlin was revealed to be a bad lover, he gave sound advice: Britomart shoul ...
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