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Spenser and Ovid

Spenser and Ovid

Pugh, Syrithe

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0754639053
ISBN13: 9780754639053
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 28 2005
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
In Spenser and Ovid, Syrithe Pugh gives the first sustained account of Ovid's presence in the Spenser canon, uncovering new evidence to reveal the thematic and formal debts many of Spenser's poems owe to Ovid. Pugh's reading presents a challenge to New Historicist assumptions, as she contests both the traditional insistence on Virgil as Spenser's prime classical model and the idea it has perpetuated of Spenser as Elizabeth I's imperial propagandist. Pugh locates Ovid's importance to Spenser precisely in his counter-Virgilian world view. Her study spans Spenser's career from the inaugural Shepheardes Calender to what was probably his last poem, The Mutabilitie Cantos, and embraces his work in the genres of pastoral, love poetry, and epic romance.

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