Animal Conventions in English Renaissance Non-religious Prose, 1550-1600Bookman Associates, 1954 - 166 pages |
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... poem . Probably many more political poems were composed in England between 1300 and 1450 than are extant . Consideration of a few of these poems , which have survived , will show how conventional ani- mal symbolism was used in such ...
... poem . Probably many more political poems were composed in England between 1300 and 1450 than are extant . Consideration of a few of these poems , which have survived , will show how conventional ani- mal symbolism was used in such ...
Page 37
... poem written some years later , most of the symbols used are drawn from heraldry and from puns on names like Bushey , Scrope , and Greene.39 The poem contains two parables : one of the hart and the adder , employing the ancient lore ...
... poem written some years later , most of the symbols used are drawn from heraldry and from puns on names like Bushey , Scrope , and Greene.39 The poem contains two parables : one of the hart and the adder , employing the ancient lore ...
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... poets , pipers , players , jugglers , jesters and dauncers , " whose doings are " abuses " such as he has read of ... poets , whom he accuses of dwelling longest on " those points that profit least . " 120 He says that some poets labor ...
... poets , pipers , players , jugglers , jesters and dauncers , " whose doings are " abuses " such as he has read of ... poets , whom he accuses of dwelling longest on " those points that profit least . " 120 He says that some poets labor ...
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