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Petrarch imagined that the hopeless but pure love of a woman could lead a man to heaven. In sixteenth-century England Edmund Spenser wrote poetry in the Petrarchan tradition while flirting with a very different kind of feminine image, creating an alternative form of eroticism to which later writers responded.Stephens, Dorothy is the author of 'Limits of Eroticism in Post-petrarchan Narrative Conditional Pleasure from Spenser to Marvell', published 2006 under ISBN 9780521034692 and ISBN 0521034698.
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