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Infernal Triad: The Flesh, the World, and the Devil in Spenser and Milton
By (Author) Patrick Cullen
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: poetry and poets
821.3
Hardback
306
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
595g
One of the few theological formulas of medieval times to survive the scrutiny of the Reformation was that of the infernal triad of the sins of the Flesh, the World, and the Devil. Through a close analysis of the structural and thematic role that this triad plays in Books I and II of the Faerie Queene and in Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Sam