THE QUIET HERO:
Figures of Temperance in Spenser, Donne, Milton and Joyce

 By Richard Douglas Jordan

Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, (1989).

First edition, first printing.

A study on the symbolic use of temperance for heroes who achieve success by waiting or having restrained or thwarted actions, with a focus on Joyce's Leopold Bloom, Donne's ANNIVERSARIES, Milton's PARADISE REGAINED, and Spenser's THE FAERIE QUEEN.

Fine and tight in fresh, blue linen with silver embossed titles to the spine, blue-and-white headband and tail-band; in a fine dust jacket.

Octavo; 226 pages; notes; bibliography; index.

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