Spenser and Ovid
Spenser and Ovid

Author: Syrithe Pugh

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-02

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1351898698

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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, particularly when considered in the light of an informed understanding of all of Ovid's work. 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. In fact, Pugh locates Ovid's importance to Spenser precisely in his counter-Virgilian world view, with its high valuation of faithful love, concern for individual freedom, distrust of imperial rule, and the poet's claim to vatic authority in opposition to political power. 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.

Spenser's Ovidian Poetics
Spenser's Ovidian Poetics

Author: Michael L. Stapleton

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0874130808

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The author's predecessors focus almost exclusively on the Metamorphoses as intertext, but do not often distinguish between early modern Latin editions of the poem and translations such as Arthur Golding's. Although Spenser read Ovid in his native language, during the quarter-century of his writing career, his countrymen such as Shakespeare, Donne, and Lodge imitate and recast the ancient author. During this English aetas Ovidiana, a translation industry arises simultaneously so that the entire corpus is rendered into English, from Golding's Metamorphoses (1567) to Wye Saltonstall's Ex Ponto (1638). Since the sixteenth century did not often read or hear a Roman poet in prose renditions, the author uses Renaissance poetical verse translations (with the Latin text) to explore Spenser's variegated use of Ovid: how he sounded as early modern English poetry.

Marlowe's Counterfeit Profession
Marlowe's Counterfeit Profession

Author: Patrick Gerard Cheney

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 0802009719

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Marlowe was the first writer to the translate the Amores, and thus the first to make the Ovidian cursus literally his own.

Spenser and Donne
Spenser and Donne

Author: Yulia Ryzhik

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2019-10-07

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 152611738X

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This edited collection of essays, part of The Manchester Spenser series, brings together leading Spenser and Donne scholars to challenge the traditionally dichotomous view of these two major poets and to shift the critical conversation towards a more holistic, relational view of the two authors’ poetics and thought.

The Mutabilitie Cantos
The Mutabilitie Cantos

Author: Edmund Spenser

Publisher:

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13:

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These cantos, published posthumously, are general agreed to contain some of the finest poetry in "The Faerie Queene", and are of central importance in the study of philosophic and religious beliefs in the late sixteenth century.

Spenser and Virgil
Spenser and Virgil

Author: Syrithe Pugh

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2016-10-07

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 1526103893

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Dubbed 'the English Virgil' in his own lifetime, Spenser has been compared to the Augustan laureate ever since. He invited the comparison, expecting a readership intimately familiar with Virgil's works to notice and interpret his rich web of allusion and imitation, but also his significant departures and transformations.This volume considers Spenser's pastoral poetry, the genre which announces the inception of a Virgilian career in The Shepheardes Calender, and to which he returns in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, throwing the 'Virgilian career' into reverse. His sustained dialogue with Virgil's Eclogues bewrays at once a profound debt to Virgil and a deep-seated unease with his values and priorities, not least his subordination of pastoral to epic.Drawing on the commentary tradition and engaging with current critical debates, this study of Spenser's interpretation, imitation and revision of Virgil casts new light on both poets-and on the genre of pastoral itself.

Ovid's Metamorphoses
Ovid's Metamorphoses

Author: Ovid

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13: 9780801870606

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This landmark translation of Ovid was acclaimed by Ezra Pound as "the most beautiful book in the language (my opinion and I suspect it was Shakespeare's)". Ovid's deliciously witty and poignant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked myths and legends in which men and women are transformed -- often by love -- into flowers, trees, stones, and stars. Golding's robustly vernacular version was the first major English translation and decisively influenced Shakespeare, Spenser, and the character of English Renaissance writing.

Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid
Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid

Author: Maggie Kilgour

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-02-02

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 0199589437

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Contributing to our understanding of Ovid, Milton, and more broadly the transmission and transformation of classical traditions, this book examines the ways in which Milton drew on Ovid's oeuvre, and argues that Ovid's revision of the past gave Renaissance writers a model for their own transformation of classical works.