The Purpose of Praise: Past and Future in The Lusiads of Luís de CamõesKing's College, 1983 - 19 pages |
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... nymphs . The erotic revels of the nymphs and mariners in the Arcadian setting of this locus amoenus can be seen , on one level , as a crude wish - fulfilment , an extended fantasy projection of a sexual encounter between prostitutes and ...
... nymphs . The erotic revels of the nymphs and mariners in the Arcadian setting of this locus amoenus can be seen , on one level , as a crude wish - fulfilment , an extended fantasy projection of a sexual encounter between prostitutes and ...
Page 15
... nymphs bathing in crystal streams ... ) with the traditional associations of the golden age : nature producing of its own accord without the need for cultivation , the tameness of wild animals , the swan and the nightingale singing in ...
... nymphs bathing in crystal streams ... ) with the traditional associations of the golden age : nature producing of its own accord without the need for cultivation , the tameness of wild animals , the swan and the nightingale singing in ...
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... nymphs with the mariners will come from a Utopian marriage between " the sons of earth and the daughters of the sea ( i.e. from Nature before the Fall ) " . He notes , too , that in the poet's imagination the island is situated not in a ...
... nymphs with the mariners will come from a Utopian marriage between " the sons of earth and the daughters of the sea ( i.e. from Nature before the Fall ) " . He notes , too , that in the poet's imagination the island is situated not in a ...
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