The Poetic Theology of Love
The Poetic Theology of Love

Author: Thomas Hyde

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9780874132731

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This book argues that current criticism tends to take the mythology of love either too innocently or too skeptically and therefore distorts the complex roles played by the god of love in longer narrative poems and discursive works of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

The Specter of Dido
The Specter of Dido

Author: John Watkins

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1995-01-01

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9780300058833

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This book dismantles the stereotype of Spenser as one who blurs earlier epic traditions. John Watkins's examinations of Spenser's major poetry reveal a poet keenly attuned to dissonances among his classical, medieval, and early modern sources. By bringing Virgil into an intertextual dialogue with Chaucer, Ariosto, and Tasso, and several Neo-Latin commentators, Spenser transformed the most patriarchal of genres into a vehicle for praising the Virgin Queen.