Architectonics of Imitation in Spenser, Daniel, and Drayton / / David Galbraith.

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• VerfasserIn: Galbraith, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

This ground-breaking study explores the treatment of the boundaries between poetry and history in three epic literary works: Spenser's Faerie Queene, Samuel Daniel's Civil Wars, and Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion. David Galbraith argues that each of the three national poems enters into a dialogue with classical and more contemporary predecessors and that this relationship has profound implications for understanding the English Renaissance. He explores the importance for each poem of various aspects of the relationship between England and Rome and the significance of the recurring spatial metaphors by which the territories of poetry and history are constituted, negotiated, and traversed. By presenting historically and theoretically inflected readings of the poems, Galbraith gives new interpretation to important problems of allegory and poetic imitation.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- ONE. The Landscape of Allegory -- England and Rome in The Faerie Queene -- TWO. 'All in amaze': Allegory in Book I of The Faerie Queene -- THREE. Translatio Imperil in Book III of The Faerie Queene -- Poetry and History after The Faerie Queene -- FOUR. 'Historian in verse': Daniel's Civil Wars -- FIVE. 'A true native Muse': Drayton's Poly-Olbion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index