Ten journeys to the Venusberg: Morris' drafts for "The Hill of Venus".(William Morris, twenty-fifth tale of 'The Earthly Paradise')(Critical Essay)
From: Victorian Poetry
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Date: 12/22/2001
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Author: Boos, Florence S.
One of the strongest characteristics of that . . . assertion of the liberty of the heart, in the middle age, which I have termed a medieval Renaissance, was its antinomianism, its spirit of rebellion and revolt against the moral and religious ideas of the time. In their search after the pleasures of the senses and the imagination, in their care for beauty, in their worship of the body, people were impelled beyond the bounds of the Christian ideal; and their love became sometimes a ...
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