Traditions and Innovations: Essays on British Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

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David G. Allen, Robert A. White
University of Delaware Press, 1990 - 271 páginas
This collection considers a wide range of texts, authors, and concerns--from the Man of Law's Tale to Tis Pity She's a Whore; from the mysterious Thomas Malory to the widely visible Ben Jonson; from the image of St. Paul's thorn in Troilus and Criseyde to the Renaissance iconography of Ganymede.

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Índice

Preface
7
Separations and St Pauls Thorn in Chaucers Troilus
35
of Chaucers Canterbury Tales and the Mental
50
Tracing the Provenance
75
Spensers Arachnean
88
Patriarchal Fatherhood in Ben Jonsons Epigram 45
102
Traditions and Subtext
126
Thomas Heywoods A Woman Killed with Kindness as Domestic
150
Type and Antitype
177
The Temptation of
187
Poetry as Sacred
214
Resonance in the Poetry of Robert Herrick
223
Iconographic Traditions and Peachams
231
King George of England Meets Samuel Johnson the Great Cham
251
Notes on Contributors
265
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The Tragedy of Annabella in Tis Pity Shes a Whore
163

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Página 143 - Philomel, with melody Sing in our sweet lullaby ; Lulla, lulla, lullaby, lulla, lulla, lullaby : Never harm, Nor spell nor charm, Come our lovely lady nigh ; So, good night, with lullaby.
Página 204 - Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
Página 146 - The moon shines bright : — In such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise ; in such a night, Troilus, methinks, mounted the Trojan walls, And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents, Where Cressid lay that night.
Página 143 - I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...
Página 227 - TO DIANEME. SWEET, be not proud of those two eyes Which, starlike, sparkle in their skies ; Nor be you proud that you can see All hearts your captives, yours yet free ; Be you not proud of that rich hair Which wantons with the love-sick air ; Whenas that ruby which you wear, Sunk from the tip of your soft ear, Will last to be a precious stone When all your world of beauty's gone.
Página 142 - And thorough this distemperature we see The seasons alter : hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose, And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds Is, as in mockery, set.
Página 204 - Loses discountenanced, and like folly shows : Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after made Occasionally ; and, to consummate all, Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat Build in her loveliest, and create an awe About her, as a guard angelic placed.
Página 189 - But we must not follow those who advise us, being men, to think of human things, and, being mortal, of mortal things, but must, so far as we can, make ourselves immortal, and strain every nerve to live in accordance with the best thing in us ; for even if it be small in bulk, much more does it in power and worth surpass everything.
Página 190 - O sacred, wise, and wisdom-giving plant, Mother of science! now I feel thy power Within me clear; not only to discern Things in their causes, but to trace the ways Of highest agents, deem'd, however, wise.

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