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49 Professor Taylor points out that “ the most distinctive feature ” of the English political prophecy is the use of animals and birds as symbols to represent men and women . His description of the type shows at a glance the close ...
49 Professor Taylor points out that “ the most distinctive feature ” of the English political prophecy is the use of animals and birds as symbols to represent men and women . His description of the type shows at a glance the close ...
Page 50
Even here he employs conventional animal imagery to point the contrast : Surely to follow rather the Goths in rhyming , than the Greeks in true versifying , were even to eat acorns with swine , when we may freely eat wheat bread amongst ...
Even here he employs conventional animal imagery to point the contrast : Surely to follow rather the Goths in rhyming , than the Greeks in true versifying , were even to eat acorns with swine , when we may freely eat wheat bread amongst ...
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121 He accuses poets of forsaking " the fayre fields " to " wallowe in the myre ” ( an allusion to the hog ) and points out by way of comparison that “ the scarabe flies over many a sweet flower , and lightes in a cowsherd .
121 He accuses poets of forsaking " the fayre fields " to " wallowe in the myre ” ( an allusion to the hog ) and points out by way of comparison that “ the scarabe flies over many a sweet flower , and lightes in a cowsherd .
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| Title | Animal Conventions in English Renaissance Non-religious Prose, 1550-1600 |
| Author | William Meredith Carroll |
| Publisher | Bookman Associates, 1954 |
| Length | 166 pages |
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