Spenser and Virgil (eBook)

The pastoral poems

Syrithe Pugh (Autor)

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2016
368 Seiten
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-0389-5 (ISBN)

Infos

An engaging study that offers new and provocative re-readings of Spenser's pastoral poems, with a focus on Spenser's acknowledged debt to Virgil and his Eclogues. Reception studies, politics and classical studies are interweaved to provide a greater understanding of both poets.

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Dubbed 'the English Virgil' in his own lifetime, Spenser has been compared to the Augustan laureate ever since. He invited the comparison, expecting a readership intimately familiar with Virgil's works to notice and interpret his rich web of allusion and imitation, but also his significant departures and transformations.This volume considers Spenser's pastoral poetry, the genre which announces the inception of a Virgilian career in The Shepheardes Calender, and to which he returns in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, throwing the 'Virgilian career' into reverse. His sustained dialogue with Virgil's Eclogues bewrays at once a profound debt to Virgil and a deep-seated unease with his values and priorities, not least his subordination of pastoral to epic.Drawing on the commentary tradition and engaging with current critical debates, this study of Spenser's interpretation, imitation and revision of Virgil casts new light on both poets-and on the genre of pastoral itself.

Autor

Syrithe Pugh is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Aberdeen

Inhalt

Introduction
1. Intertextuality and allegory in Virgil's Eclogues
2. Virgilian negotiations in The Shepheardes Calender
3. Virgilian structure in The Shepheardes Calender
4. Reshaping the Virgilian cursus: pastoral vocation in 'Astrophel'
5. Reimagining the pastoral muse in 'Colin Clouts Come Home Againe'
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.10.2016
• Reihe/Serie: The Manchester Spenser
• Mitarbeit: Herausgeber (Serie): J. B. Lethbridge
• Verlagsort: Manchester
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Colin Clouts Come Home Againe • Eclogues • Edmund Spenser • pastoral poetry • poetic programme • Renaissance • Servius • the English Virgil • The Shepheardes Calender • Virgilian career
• ISBN-10: 1-5261-0389-3 / 1526103893
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-0389-5 / 9781526103895