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Author Lees-Jeffries, Hester.

Title England's helicon : fountains in early modern literature and culture / Hester Lees-Jeffries
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 330 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Series UPSO - Oxford University Press E-Books
Contents pt. I. Sources and reflections: the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499) and Sidney's New Arcadia (1582-1584) -- 'Some fair book': thye Hypnerotomachia Poliphili in England -- Reading fountains in the Hypnerotomachia -- The fountains of Venus and Adonis: revelation and reflection -- The fountain of Aeneas: Sidney rewrites the Hypnerotonmachia -- pt. II. Living waters: Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590) -- Ad Fontes: Elizabeth and the English bible -- The christian knight: Redcrosse learns to read -- The well of life: all things made new -- Fountains seen and unseen -- pt. III. Poisoned springs: Jonson's The Fountaine of selfe-love (1600) -- The public fountain: Elizabethan politics and the humanist tradition -- A visual metaphor: staging the fountain -- The fountain of Salmacis: self-love and satire -- Diana's justice: Essex, Nonesuch, and Hamptom Court
Summary This illustrated account of early modern gardens and their fountains shows how they were informed by and informed the literary texts of the period
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-318) and index
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Subject Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586. Arcadia.
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Faerie queene.
Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637. Fountaine of selfe-love
SUBJECT Faerie queene (Spenser, Edmund) fast (OCoLC)fst01356045
Arcadia (Sidney, Philip) fast (OCoLC)fst01801940
Subject English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Themes, motives
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
Gardens in literature.
Fountains in literature.
Fountains -- England -- History -- 16th century
Gardens -- Symbolic aspects -- History -- 16th century
Gardens -- Symbolic aspects.
Gardens in literature.
English literature -- Early modern.
Fountains.
Fountains in literature.
Literatur
Springbrunnen Motiv
England.
Englisch.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191696473
0191696471