England's helicon : fountains in early modern literature and culture /

This illustrated account of early modern gardens and their fountains shows how they were informed by and informed the literary texts of the period.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lees-Jeffries, Hester
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Series:	UPSO - Oxford University Press E-Books.
Subjects:	Sidney, Philip, > 1554-1586. > Arcadia. Spenser, Edmund, > 1552?-1599. > Faerie queene. Jonson, Ben, > 1573?-1637. > Fountaine of selfe-love. Faerie queene (Spenser, Edmund) Arcadia (Sidney, Philip) English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > Themes, motives. English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism. Gardens in literature. Fountains in literature. Fountains > England > History > 16th century. Gardens > Symbolic aspects > History > 16th century. Jardins dans la littérature. Fontaines dans la littérature. Jardins > Aspect symbolique > Histoire > 16e siècle. Gardens > Symbolic aspects. English literature > Early modern. Fountains. England. Literatur Springbrunnen > Motiv Englisch. 1500-1700 Geschichte 1499-1600. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
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Table of Contents:

pt. I. Sources and reflections: the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499) and Sidney's New Arcadia (1582-1584)
'Some fair book': thye Hypnerotomachia Poliphili in England
Reading fountains in the Hypnerotomachia
The fountains of Venus and Adonis: revelation and reflection
The fountain of Aeneas: Sidney rewrites the Hypnerotonmachia
pt. II. Living waters: Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590)
Ad Fontes: Elizabeth and the English bible
The christian knight: Redcrosse learns to read
The well of life: all things made new
Fountains seen and unseen
pt. III. Poisoned springs: Jonson's The Fountaine of selfe-love (1600)
The public fountain: Elizabethan politics and the humanist tradition
A visual metaphor: staging the fountain
The fountain of Salmacis: self-love and satire
Diana's justice: Essex, Nonesuch, and Hamptom Court.