Edmund Spenser

The Faerie Queen by Edmund Spencer uses erotic and mystifying dreams to provide insight into the representation of gender relations; it is through women that the emotional state of desire as well as terror is experienced. Throughout the epic women dominate the visions experienced by the knights which sometimes makes the dreams more complex and difficult to interpret. Interestingly, the male counterparts within the context of the epic explore controversial implications of their virtues as men, because

Human nature has its way of dictating through all periods in time. While things have changed, people have not. Humans have learned from their mistakes, but the human instinct remains the same. Throughout time, women have held a dominance in society, even though women’s rights were lacking. In the works of John Milton’s Paradise Lost, Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock, and William Butler Yeats’ Leda and the Swan, women did not have the rights they deserve in these points of time, but all were

Introduction In the late sixteenth and the seventeenth century, new ideas and motives in arts, inspired by the past but concerned with new concepts, appeared. Building on a courtly love, some writers and poets attempted to discuss the nature of love by commenting on gender issues and sexuality (MacArthur, 1989). Thus, love conventions, based on a passion or an unrequited love, would change, challenging social norms and discussing male and female sexualities. On the one hand, the authors explore

The textual differences between the 1599 and 1609 renditions of Shakespeare's Sonnet 138 subtly change the meaning and shift the focus of the poem. Most notably, in the 1609 rendition, more emphasis is placed on their shared complicity and Shakespeare more vividly paints his mistress as an individual opposed to a third-party construct. To begin, note the difference in lines 6-8 of both renditions: “Although I know my years be past the best, / I, smiling, credit her false-speaking tongue, / Outfacing

This is the “inescapable” quality of romance – its tendency to go on and on without regard for resolution. Her study covers five centuries by exploring the “implications of ‘romance’” in the time and works of four celebrated romantic poets: Aristo, Spenser, Milton, and Keats (7). Through this exploration of individual authors and their works, Parker is able to offer suggestions of what, poetically, became of them, their influence, and their significance within the variations of a recurrent mode. She

There are many things in this world that we choose to partake in for our own personal pleasures. A sense of harmless, humorous rebellion lied within the heart of profound writers in more historical times of literature who made it their preference to take the more parodical route towards their audience. In Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare and Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop by William Butler Yeats, it is evident that both well astounding poets chose to venture into delivering a less cliche message

Intentions of The Faerie Queene In “The Faerie Queene”, Spencer Edmund produces an allegory. His intention was to relate England in the 1590s to a mythical land in which each character had a symbolic meaning as well as the events they were undergoing. He lived in an era where Roman Catholicism was replaced with Protestantism and he dedicated himself to unconsciously teach and educate his readers the Catholic Church was corrupted and was the wrong religion to follow. For this reason, he gave each

Background Dr. William Cullen was one of the most important professors at Edinburg Medical School. He was a physician, chemist and agriculturist that was a central figure in the Scottish enlightenment. His journey began when he apprenticed for Mr. John Paisley at the faculty of physicians and surgeons at Glasgow and only years after his apprenticeship ended he began to teach at the University of Glasgow himself 1. He was a man who valued education and later on distinction, for his superiority in

Acceptance of Loss of Time in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73 and Keats’s When I have Fears that I May Cease to Be      Time spent fearing the passage of time wastes the very thing that one dreads losing. Both Shakespeare’s "Sonnet 73" and Keats’s "When I have Fears that I May Cease to Be" reveal the irrationality of this fear and explore different interpretations of this theme: to Keats death equates an inability to reach his potential, to accomplish what he desires; to Shakespeare death (represented

Nature in All its Glory: Wordsworth Versus Keats With William Wordsworth and John Keats, they were two highly distinct poets that allow the audience to continue to explore and rebound back to Nature over and over. They illustrate in different manners how nature is so powerful due to the spirit of humankinds found in such Nature. They both “romanced” such a period that aided in the revival of humankind and how humans demonstrate nature and life itself. Wordsworth believed our teacher was Nature and