“The planet-like music of poetry”: The Music of the Spheres and the Poetics of Mimesis in Spenser’s Bower of Bliss and Milton’s Nativity Ode
This essay explores two variations of the commonplace allegorical identification between poetry and the music of the spheres in the English Renaissance. In Edmund Spenser’s Bower of Bliss episode from The Faerie Queene, Book II (pub. 1590), and John Milton’s “Nativity Ode” (pub. 1645), it highlights...
Main Author: | Florian Klaeger |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Institut du Monde Anglophone
2023-09-01
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Series: | Etudes Epistémè |
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Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/16265 |
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