Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance PoetrySince publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. It:
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... Biblical Exegesis and Typology Theories of Poetry 12 Allegory Numerology A Note on the Division of Historical Periods Abbreviations References Further Reading Bibliographical Appendix English Renaissance Authors vii ix 21 35 45 55 69 89 ...
... Biblical Exegesis and Typology Theories of Poetry 12 Allegory Numerology A Note on the Division of Historical Periods Abbreviations References Further Reading Bibliographical Appendix English Renaissance Authors vii ix 21 35 45 55 69 89 ...
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... Bible, and of the language and arguments of theology. He was probably fairly widely read in works of religious controversy, both of his own day and (in fewer cases) of the early centuries of the Church. Second, he was a classical ...
... Bible, and of the language and arguments of theology. He was probably fairly widely read in works of religious controversy, both of his own day and (in fewer cases) of the early centuries of the Church. Second, he was a classical ...
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... Bible and the tenets of Christianity, and who are thus unlikely to be aware of the difficulties confronting them. My intention is to show them the means by which they can in part recover the intellectual context of Renaissance poetry ...
... Bible and the tenets of Christianity, and who are thus unlikely to be aware of the difficulties confronting them. My intention is to show them the means by which they can in part recover the intellectual context of Renaissance poetry ...
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... biblical quotations) this has meant anachronistically substituting it for other versions. Extracts from English Renaissance ... Bible in the Authorised Version, especially the Pauline Epistles; Augustine's City of God, Books XI–XXII. In ...
... biblical quotations) this has meant anachronistically substituting it for other versions. Extracts from English Renaissance ... Bible in the Authorised Version, especially the Pauline Epistles; Augustine's City of God, Books XI–XXII. In ...
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... in its Platonic sense as in the sense employed in Biblical exegesis. 'Shadows' in the Platonic sense (as in the Allegory of the Cave) would mean the world of the senses, deceptively real, but in fact insubstantial, INTRODUCTION 5.
... in its Platonic sense as in the sense employed in Biblical exegesis. 'Shadows' in the Platonic sense (as in the Allegory of the Cave) would mean the world of the senses, deceptively real, but in fact insubstantial, INTRODUCTION 5.
Contents
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2 The Pagan Gods | 21 |
3 Platonism and Neoplatonism | 35 |
4 Stoicism | 45 |
5 Views of History | 55 |
6 Cosmology | 69 |
7 Reformation and CounterReformation | 89 |
11 Theories of Poetry | 149 |
12 Allegory | 159 |
13 Numerology | 169 |
A Note on the Division of Historical Periods | 181 |
Abbreviations | 183 |
References | 185 |
Further Reading | 193 |
Bibliographical Appendix | 205 |
8 Protestant Theology | 107 |
9 Humanism | 125 |
10 Biblical Exegesis and Typology | 139 |
Author Index | 227 |
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