The Allegorical Temper: Vision and Reality in Book II of Spenser's Faerie Queene

Acrasia allegory Alma's castle Amavia anagoge Archimago Aristotle Arthur attitude Belphoebe Belphoebe's Book Bower Braggadochio C. S. Lewis Canto vii character Christian chronicle classical comparison concept consciousness context critics Cymochles Diana divine doth dramatic earthly Edmund Spenser Elizabeth epic simile episode ethical Everyman evil excellence existence F. M. Cornford fable fact Faerie Queene faint faire fiction Furor Gloriana God's goodly grace Guyon hero hero's honor human idea ideal kind knight krasis literary lust Maleger Mammon Mammon's Cave man's meaning Medina merely metaphor mind moral narrator nature Palmer passage passions Penthesilea Phaedria Phantastes poem poem's poet poet's poetic action poetic allegory poetry problem Pyrochles quest reader reality Redcross seems selfe sense shame Shamefastnesse simile six cantos sophrosyne soul Spenser spirit stanzas suggests symbolic T. S. Eliot temperance theological things tion University Press virtue W. K. Wimsatt Watkins weakness words York