The Flaming Heart: Essays on Crashaw, Machiavelli, and Other Studies in the Relations Between Italian and English Literature from Chaucer to T.S. Eliot |
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... dream . He has split it up into two . On one hand he draws upon it for Criseyde's dream in Book ii ( st . 133 ) : Criseyde dreams that her heart is being torn out by an eagle which replaces it in her breast with its own heart : ' of ...
... dream . He has split it up into two . On one hand he draws upon it for Criseyde's dream in Book ii ( st . 133 ) : Criseyde dreams that her heart is being torn out by an eagle which replaces it in her breast with its own heart : ' of ...
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... dreams of a boar ' with tuskes grete ' which is kissing Criseyde . Obviously Chaucer has distributed the different elements of the one dream he found in Boccaccio into the two dreams of his poem . But why an eagle in the first case ...
... dreams of a boar ' with tuskes grete ' which is kissing Criseyde . Obviously Chaucer has distributed the different elements of the one dream he found in Boccaccio into the two dreams of his poem . But why an eagle in the first case ...
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... dream . To Dante his pilgrimage to the other world was no fiction , but a reality greater than any mundane reality ... dream , he inserts into it the part imitated from Dante at the point in which Dante speaks of a dream of his , in the ...
... dream . To Dante his pilgrimage to the other world was no fiction , but a reality greater than any mundane reality ... dream , he inserts into it the part imitated from Dante at the point in which Dante speaks of a dream of his , in the ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Chaucer and the Great Italian Writers of the Trecento | 29 |
Machiavelli and the Elizabethans | 90 |
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