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Description edit
This is the first dictionary of symbols to be based on literature, rather than "universal" pyschological archetypes, myths or esoterica. Michael Ferber has assembled nearly two hundred main entries clearly explaining and illustrating the literary symbols that we all encounter (such as swan,... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Milton: Add a description of this character.
- Virgil
- Blake
- Matt
- Horace
- Spenser
- Tennyson
- Byron
- Adam
- Don Juan
- Lattimore
- John
- Aeneas
- Chaucer
- Shakespeare
- Lucretius
- Dryden
- Wordsworth
- Childe Harold
- Helen
- Troy
- Cowper
- Diana
- Sidney
- Marlowe
- Penelope
- Hector
- Venus
- Marvell
- Isaiah
- Ben Jonson
- Richard
- David
- Daniel
- Gray
- Macbeth
- Mary
- Zeus
- Shelley
- Paul
- Agamemnon
- Knight
- Clytemnestra
- T. S. Eliot
- Coleridge
- Don Quixote
- Jane Eyre
- Omar Khayyam
- Muse
Setting & Locations edit
- Sophocles
- Euripides
- Iliad
- Egypt
- Hades
- Rome
- Greece
- Heaven
- England
- Israel
- Goethe
- Jerusalem
- America
- France
- Athens
- Statius
- Jupiter
- Republic
- Europe
- Racine
- Venice
- Italy
- West Wind
- Romantic
- Paris
- Thebes
- Moon
- Apollo
- Hera
- Middle Ages
- Britain
- Babylon
- Beowulf
- London
- Mars
- Sappho
- Germany
- Hephaestus
- Laon
- Sea
- Petrarch
- Rabelais
- Eden
- Pieria
- R3
- Tiresias
- Frankincense
- Ceres
- Islam
- Sicily
Authors & Contributors edit
- Michael Ferber (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 820
Subjects edit
- Books › Reference › Dictionaries & Thesauruses › Foreign Language › Welsh
- Books › Reference › Dictionaries & Thesauruses › Foreign Language › Irish
- Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › Criticism & Theory
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › British
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Books & Reading › Reference
- Books › Arts & Photography › History & Criticism
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