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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Blatant Beast"”.
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Questing the Beast: From Malory to Milton
<p>The Questing Beast is a Medieval creature that has received little scholarly attention. Because of her labile nature, she is difficult to identify and therefore challenging to study. When previously analyzed, she has been considered only in her Medieval context. By comparing the Questing Beast …
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Spenser's "Inward Ey": Poetics, Lexicography, and the Motivations for Edmund Spenser's Linguistic Idealism
… speech as a corrupting monster--most notably the Blatant Beast of <italic>The Legend of Courtesy</italic>, Book 6 of <italic>The Faerie Queene</italic>. My thesis re-examines Spenser's antipathies for language, telling the story of his definition of the poet both in terms of his understandings of …
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"In whom to lay the pattern of a Christian hero": Milton and the Elizabethan tradition of Christian learning
As Spenser said of Sir Calidore's quest for the Blatant Beast, the conclusion of this dissertation must remind the reader that the course of the discussion "is often stayd, yet never is astray." This study of Milton's Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained against the background of the Elizabethan …