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1 online resource (ix, 330 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
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UPSO - Oxford University Press E-Books
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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 |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586. Arcadia.
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Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Faerie queene.
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Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637. Fountaine of selfe-love
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Faerie queene (Spenser, Edmund) fast (OCoLC)fst01356045 |
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Arcadia (Sidney, Philip) fast (OCoLC)fst01801940 |
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Themes, motives
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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Gardens in literature.
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Fountains in literature.
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Fountains -- England -- History -- 16th century
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Gardens -- Symbolic aspects -- History -- 16th century
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Gardens -- Symbolic aspects.
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Gardens in literature.
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English literature -- Early modern.
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Fountains.
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Fountains in literature.
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Literatur
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Springbrunnen Motiv
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England.
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Englisch.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191696473 |
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0191696471 |
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