A view of Herrick's poetic world and its values: with some reference to his fairy poetry [PDF]
From the preface: Herrick was a prolific poet, and a remarkably consistent one. Hesperides encompasses a lifelong collection of poems on themes as diverse as serious reflections on life's brevity and the playful examination of the minutely imagined world
Letcher, Valerie Helen
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Verse Form in English Renaissance Poetry: A Catalogue of Stanza Patterns [PDF]
, 1992 'Poetry is form and permanent poetry is permanent form', says Paul Fussell. Form has ever been one of the problems poets encounter when deciding to building their poems.
Absi, Munzer Adel
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Paradise Lost and the origin of "evil”: Classical or Judeo-Christian? [PDF]
, 2018 Milton'sParadise Lost is an epic opem about the origin of evil, mixing classical and Christian forms and sources. This essay first explores whether "evil” is primarily a classical or Judeo-Christian concept, and shows that it is a product of the ...
Forsyth, Neil
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Nature, nurture, mythology: a cultural history of Dutch Orangism during the first stadholderless era, 1650-1672 [PDF]
, 2007 Through its military and political service to the United Provinces of the Netherlands during the course of the Dutch struggle for independence from Spain, the house of Orange came to occupy a special place in Dutch culture.
Beaman, Greg Alan
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Idealization of the power of Hispanic elites through the representation of Hercules mosaics [PDF]
, 2021 Argüelles Álvarez, Patricia +1 more
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Strangers Among Us: Invasive Plants In British Literature, 1669-1800. [PDF]
, 2016 Exotic flora in the long eighteenth century (1666-1800) embodied a point of contact between the natural and imaginary worlds, bearing witness to the ways that ideology relocates living things according to human desire.
Bullington, Thomas Lance
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A gymnasion assemblage lost at sea? : The statues from the Antikythera shipwreck reconsidered [PDF]
The Antikythera shipwreck provides a rare chronological anchor in the history of Greek sculpture. The cargo, a massive haul of more than four-dozen bronze and marble statues, in addition to amphorae and portable luxury goods, was lost at sea c. 70–50 BCE,
Martens, Brian
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Shakespeare's Pericles, prince of Tyre and its sources: myth and christianization [PDF]
, 2020 P. 415-429The drama Pericles, prince of Tyre, of Shakespeare is one of the most unusual instances of the survival of the legend of King Apollonius in European literature.
Nieto Ibáñez, Jesús María
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Don\u27t Take Orpheus without the Lyre: The Intricacies of Using Pagan Myths for Christian Purposes in The Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost [PDF]
, 2012 Because of their universal and artistic nature, the classical myths lend themselves well to use in literature, especially poetry. When used properly, as by Dante and Milton, the myths have the ability to enhance the work; when used poorly, they become ...
Waltmann, Rebekah J
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The blossoming of classical topomythopoiesis [PDF]
A cursory glance at Italian Renaissance gardens reveals that they are populated by the beings of classical mythology. Venus, Apollo, Pegasus, Hercules, … are frozen figures in stone that have come to characterise the iconography of the verdant villas ...
Prinsloo, Johan Nel
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