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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 pattern in light of Petrarch and the Reformation. Cheney demonstrates that, far from changing his mind about his career as a result of disillusionment, Spenser embarks upon and completes a daring progress that secures his status as an Orphic poet. In October, Spenser calls his idea of a literary career the 'famous flight.' Both classical and Christian culture has authorized the myth of the winged poet as a primary myth of fame and glory.
Cheney shows that throughout his poetry Spenser relies on an image of flight to accomplish his highest goal.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:390 pages
- Publisher:University of Toronto Press
- Publication Date:25/10/2017
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- ISBN:9781487598181
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Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:390 pages
- Publisher:University of Toronto Press
- Publication Date:25/10/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9781487598181