Illuminator, Makar, Vates: Visions of Poetry in the Fifteenth Century, Volume 10 |
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... poem almost exclusively as a Boethian consideration of the workings of Fortune and humanity's search for order in a universe only imperfectly understood , the Quair is also a significant poem about poetry.1 At the outset of the poem ...
... poem almost exclusively as a Boethian consideration of the workings of Fortune and humanity's search for order in a universe only imperfectly understood , the Quair is also a significant poem about poetry.1 At the outset of the poem ...
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... poem to poem , the premise about the poetic process introduced in the " Targe , " that poetry is a process of il- luminating and enameling the surface of the poem , is common to most of Dunbar's works . Two examples , " Complaint to the ...
... poem to poem , the premise about the poetic process introduced in the " Targe , " that poetry is a process of il- luminating and enameling the surface of the poem , is common to most of Dunbar's works . Two examples , " Complaint to the ...
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... poetic writ- ing , Hawes suggests a link between poetry and prophecy and under- scores the good poem's power to embody enduring truths . The poet's " faynyng " or creation is a type of God's creation and like the divine prophecies , his ...
... poetic writ- ing , Hawes suggests a link between poetry and prophecy and under- scores the good poem's power to embody enduring truths . The poet's " faynyng " or creation is a type of God's creation and like the divine prophecies , his ...
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