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how spenser use time and temporality in amoretti sonnets

 

ambi b #194549
Aug 05, 2011 4:41 AM

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how spenser use time and temporality in amoretti sonnets

amoretti sonnets written by edmund spenser

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Roskolnikov
Jan 16, 2012 5:44 PM

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For Spenser, there is an important distinction between "spiritual" and "physical" love. This platonic understanding of love sees religious (agape) love for God and neighbor as infinitely different from passionate (eros) love for a sexual partner. Time is the essential difference here because physical love is a love that is meant to be exhausted--whereas religious love is unending.
 

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