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  1. What's the symbolism of the flowers in The Winter's Tale?

    In addition, the first flowers Perdita had given are "flowers of winter", whereas now she gives them flowers of (mid)summer, wich, in Perdita's words, are appropriate for "men of middle age". hot …

  2. intertextuality - Where does Hawthorne imitate Spenser? - Literature ...

    2 days ago · As quoted in a different question, Carol V. Kaske says that Nathaniel Hawthorne was influenced by Edmund Spenser: Spenser has been called "the poet's poet," in that his …

  3. Newest 'fyodor-tyutchev' Questions - Literature Stack Exchange

    Q&A for scholars and enthusiasts of literature In the poem Тени сизые смесились by Fyodor Tyutchev, we have sometimes the verse: Тихий, томный, благовонный, and sometimes the verse: Тихий, …

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  7. meaning - In The Winters Tale what does "Nine changes of the Watery ...

    Jun 6, 2020 · I consulted three annotated editions of The Winter's Tale; they confirm the meaning "nine months". Ernest Schanzer's edition (Penguin, 1969) provides the following endnote for the first two …

  8. Newest 'the-ladys-maid' Questions - Literature Stack Exchange

    Something about blood being thicker than water and 'taking after' Again from the book The Lady's Maid (1975) by Rosina Harrison... Another issue when translating this book is I often had a hard time …

  9. Would the mail censors in WWI era France have allowed the letters ...

    Jul 10, 2025 · In Philippe Besson's In the Absence of Men, set during the First World War, the teenaged Vincent begins a passionate affair with Arthur, a soldier on leave. When Arthur returns to the front, …

  10. terminology - Vergil or Virgil? - Literature Stack Exchange

    Jun 29, 2023 · Yes, there's a story, but not a very cohesive one. Wikipedia cites Virgil in the Renaissance 's chapter, Virgil with an i, which is a thorough examination of the name's orthographic …