This is the first book to study how a vital element of European Renaissance culture, the motif of the angelic lady, is translated into the British Enlightenment by some major seventeenth- as well as eighteenth-century poets. It offers a close study of the motif's various modernization, locating that inclusively within the history of ideas
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This is the first book to study how a vital element of European Renaissance culture, the motif of the angelic lady, is translated into the British Enlightenment by some major seventeenth- as well as eighteenth-century poets. It offers a close study of the motif's various modernization, locating that inclusively within the history of ideas
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