1997 Articles
Severed Hair from Donne to Pope
The specific symbolic implications of hair (and of its cutting) change from
age to age; what remains is its ambivalent nature, hovering between vital
importance and senseless triviality. This essay discusses hair as symbol in works by Milton, Donne, Shakespeare, Nashe, and Pope.
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- Essays in Criticism
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- https://doi.org/10.1093/eic/XLVII.3.220
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- English and Comparative Literature
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- Oxford University Press
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- May 7, 2015