Love's Pilgrimage: The Holy Journey in English Renaissance LiteratureIn Love's Pilgrimage, Grace Tiffany explores literary adaptations of the Catholic pilgrimage in the Protestant poetry and prose of Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, John Donne, John Milton, and John Bunyan. Her discussion of these authors' works illuminates her larger claim that while in the sixteenth century conventional pilgrimages to saints' shrines disappeared - as did shrines themselves - from English life, the imaginative importance of the pilgrimage persisted, and manifested itself in various ways in English culture. |
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... King Rich- ard II's " great devotion " to make a " pilgrimage ... to visit St. Thom- as's shrine " in Canterbury.5 Soon after the compilation of Froissart's Chronicles , Chaucer's Canterbury Tales famously celebrated the En- glish ...
... King Rich- ard II's " great devotion " to make a " pilgrimage ... to visit St. Thom- as's shrine " in Canterbury.5 Soon after the compilation of Froissart's Chronicles , Chaucer's Canterbury Tales famously celebrated the En- glish ...
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... king , the prior , or occa- sionally the pope , " and quotes R. A. L. Smith's comparison of such men to " retired civil servants , " whose " stories of court life , of adven- ture , and of intrigue , would . . . come as a welcome relief ...
... king , the prior , or occa- sionally the pope , " and quotes R. A. L. Smith's comparison of such men to " retired civil servants , " whose " stories of court life , of adven- ture , and of intrigue , would . . . come as a welcome relief ...
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... King's highness ' most noble progenitor , King Henry II , " demanded the erasure of his name from service books , the cessation of his feast day , and the removal of his picture from all churches . Further dis- solution of shrines ...
... King's highness ' most noble progenitor , King Henry II , " demanded the erasure of his name from service books , the cessation of his feast day , and the removal of his picture from all churches . Further dis- solution of shrines ...
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... King Henry VI at Windsor.41 The datum concerning King Henry VI is significant . Duffy notes that there are " almost a third as many surviving pilgrims ' badges from Henry's shrine , which lasted only fifty years [ from the late 1400s ...
... King Henry VI at Windsor.41 The datum concerning King Henry VI is significant . Duffy notes that there are " almost a third as many surviving pilgrims ' badges from Henry's shrine , which lasted only fifty years [ from the late 1400s ...
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... King Lear's Tom O'Bedlam , a pretend madman who calls his lonely walk a " pilgrimage " ( 5.3.197 ) . In an interesting late - seventeenth - century reversal of poor Tom , the real Christian pilgrims of John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's ...
... King Lear's Tom O'Bedlam , a pretend madman who calls his lonely walk a " pilgrimage " ( 5.3.197 ) . In an interesting late - seventeenth - century reversal of poor Tom , the real Christian pilgrims of John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's ...
Contents
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Protestant Pilgrimage and Secular State in Book I of Spensers The Faerie Queene | 44 |
Imperial Pilgrimage on Shakespeares Stage | 68 |
For Fidelia Fidele Compostela and Erotic Pilgrimage in Alls Well That Ends Well Cymbeline and Othello | 87 |
The Passionate Pilgrim From Sacramental Eros to the Mapped Body in the Poems of John Donne | 110 |
Milton and the Pilgrim Reader | 134 |
Coda The Pilgrims Progress in English Renaissance Literature | 162 |
Notes | 172 |
Bibliography | 198 |
Index | 212 |
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Page 13 - The Romish Doctrine concerning Purgatory, Pardons, Worshipping and Adoration, as well of Images as of Relics, and also Invocation of Saints, is a fond thing, vainly invented, and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture, but rather repugnant to the Word of God.
Page 196 - Hath left in shadows dread His burning idol all of blackest hue; In vain with cymbals' ring They call the grisly king, In dismal dance about the furnace blue ; The brutish gods of Nile as fast, Isis and Orus and the dog Anubis, haste.
Page 134 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
Page 27 - Andrew, dock'd in sand, Vailing her high-top lower than her ribs To kiss her burial. Should I go to church And see the holy edifice of stone, And not bethink me straight of dangerous rocks, Which touching but my gentle vessel's side, Would scatter all her spices on the stream, Enrobe the roaring waters with my silks...
Page 7 - From whence the enlightened spirit sees That shady city of palm trees. But ah ! my soul with too much stay Is drunk, and staggers in the way ! Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move; And when this dust falls to the urn, In that state I came, return.
Page 64 - Dame, and for her coche doth call: All hurtlen forth, and she with Princely pace, As faire Aurora in her purple pall, Out of the East the dawning day doth call : So forth she comes...
Page 116 - T'afFections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great prince in prison lies.
Page 189 - ... I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness : so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news ; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins ; who's in, who's out ; And take...
Page 156 - From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star, On Lemnos the /Egean isle : thus they relate, Erring...