Sea-mark : the metaphorical voyage, Spenser to Milton
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Sea-mark : the metaphorical voyage, Spenser to Milton
(Liverpool English texts and studies / general editor, Philip Edwards)
Liverpool University Press, 1997
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-221) and index
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Description
An original study of the use made by a number of major writers in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England of the metaphor of the voyage, showing how powerfully it operated, and how fundamental it is for our proper understanding of some of the best-known works of Renaissance literature.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
I.
1. Spenser: 'Who fares on sea may not commaund his way'
2. Marlowe: 'Ransacke the Ocean for orient pearle'
3. Donne: 'Is the Pacifique Sea my home?'
II.
4. Shakespeare (I): Othello: 'Verie Sea-marke of my utmost Saile'
5. Shakespeare (II): Macbeth: 'And swallow Navigation up'
6. Shakespeare (III): Comedies and Romances: 'Not so much perdition as an hayre'
III.
7. Bacon: 'The Art it selfe of Invention and Discoverie'
8. Milton: 'That fatall and perfidious Bark'
Conclusion
References
Index
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