Spenser's Famous Flight / / Patrick Cheney.
In Spenser's famous Flight, Patrick Cheney challenges the received wisdom about the shape and goal of Spenser's literary career. He contends that Spenser's idea of a literary career is not strictly the convential Virgilian pattern of pastoral to epic, but a Christian revision of that...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (390 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Texts and Abbreviations
- Introduction: Scanning the Famous Flight
- 1. Displaying the Fluttering Wing: The Literary Career of the New Orphic Poet
- 2. Pastoral, or Proving Tender Wings: Acquiring Vatic Authority in The Shepheardes Calender
- 3. Epic, or Making the Greater Flight: Enacting Vatic Virtue in Spenser's Allegory of Ralegh and Elizabeth
- 4. Love Lyric, or Sporting the Muse in Pleasant Mew: Renewing Vatic Virtue in Amoretti and Epithalamion
- 5. Hymn, or Flying Back to Heaven Apace: Returning to the Vatic Source in Fowre Hymnes
- Conclusion: Rescanning the Famous Flight in Prothalamion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- General Index
- Spenser Index