The shell must break before
the bird can fly.
--
Alfred Lord Tennyson
In "The Birth of Venus," Botticelli portrays perhaps the best representation of the Renaissance. Poised on the edge of an open shell, Venus emerges from the dark and confining space into the light of world where freedom awaits her.
Carleen
Ibrahim, Lecturer
Department
of English and Comparative Literature
California
State University, Fullerton
| If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended— That you have but slumb'red here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend. If you pardon, we will mend. from A Midsummer Night's Dream |
Spring 1999
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English/CPLT 110: Survey of Western Literature, Antiquity through the Middle Ages |
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English/CPLT 111H: Honors Survey of Western Literature, Renaissance through the 19th Century |
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CPLT 325: World Literature, Enlightenment through the 20th Century |
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