Literary Monographs, Volume 6

Adam Advent allegorical Amor associated baptism becomes begins boar Book Three bridegroom Britomart Catholic celebration Christ Christian Christmas cycle Christmas day coming consummation context couple's Crashaw Cross cry after Cupid Cupid and Psyche death divine Donne Donne's earth Epiphany epithalamic Epithalamium eternal Faerie Queene figure Garden of Adonis genre gods hath heaven Hermaphroditus Holy Church House of Busyrane hue and cry human imagery interpretation Jonson Jove Langland lignum vitae liturgical loue Magi manifestation marriage matrimony meaning metaphor Milton mystical myth mythology Nativity nature Noah's Ark numerological Passus Passus XIX Passus XVI pattern perspective phoenix Piers Plowman poem poem's poet Poetry present reference Renaissance Richard Crashaw ritual sacrament Salmacis sense shepherds significance soul Spenser spiritual stanza stanzaic story structure suggests symbolic tapestry temporal thee thou tion tradition tree of charity Tree of Jesse union Vaughan Venus and Adonis virgins vision weeping cross