Spenser's Ovidian Poetics

Spenser's Ovidian Poetics
Author: Michael L. Stapleton
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2009
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0874130808

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.

Spenser and Ovid

Spenser and Ovid
Author: Syrithe Pugh
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN:

It has long been recognized that Spenser's poetry often alludes to and imitates the work of Ovid. This book represents an attempt to read as systematic this allusion and imitation of Ovid across Spencer's career which has previously been kept fragmentaryand contained.

Complaints

Complaints
Author: Edmund Spenser
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1888
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN:

Spenser and Donne

Spenser and Donne
Author: Yulia Ryzhik
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2019-10-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 152611738X

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.

Spenser and Ovid

Spenser and Ovid
Author: Syrithe Pugh
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2017-03-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1351898698

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.

The Spenser Encyclopedia

The Spenser Encyclopedia
Author: A.C. Hamilton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 2495
Release: 2020-07-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1134934815

'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains Edmund Spenser remains one of Britain's most famous poets. With nearly 700 entries this Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive one-stop reference tool for: * appreciating Spenser's poetry in the context of his age and our own * understanding the language, themes and characters of the poems * easy to find entries arranged by subject.

Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance Literature

Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance Literature
Author: John S. Garrison
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2021-01-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0228004543

Ovid transformed English Renaissance literary ideas about love, erotic desire, embodiment, and gender more than any other classical poet. Ovidian concepts of femininity have been well served by modern criticism, but Ovid's impact on masculinity in Renaissance literature remains underexamined. This volume explores how English Renaissance writers shifted away from Virgilian heroic figures to embrace romantic ideals of courtship, civility, and friendship. Ovid's writing about masculinity, love, and desire shaped discourses of masculinity across a wide range of literary texts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including poetry, prose fiction, and drama. The book covers all major works by Ovid, in addition to Italian humanists Angelo Poliziano and Natale Conti, canonical writers such as William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Edmund Spenser, Philip Sidney, and John Milton, and lesser-known writers such as Wynkyn de Worde, Michael Drayton, Thomas Lodge, Richard Johnson, Robert Greene, John Marston, Thomas Heywood, and Francis Beaumont. Individual essays examine emasculation, abjection, pacifism, female masculinity, boys' masculinity, parody, hospitality, and protean Jewish masculinity. Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance Literature demonstrates how Ovid's poetry gave vigour and vitality to male voices in English literature - how his works inspired English writers to reimagine the male authorial voice, the male body, desire, and love in fresh terms.

Spenser's Ruins and the Art of Recollection

Spenser's Ruins and the Art of Recollection
Author: Rebeca Helfer
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0802090672

Beginning with the origins of mnemonic strategies in epic tales, Helfer examines how the art of memory speaks to debates about poetry and its place in culture from Plato to Spenser's present day.

The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature

The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature
Author: Patrick Cheney
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 752
Release: 2015-10-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0191077798

The Oxford History of Classical Reception (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have stimulated responses and refashioning by English writers. Covering the full range of English literature from the early Middle Ages to the present day, OHCREL both synthesizes existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge new research, employing an international team of expert contributors for each of the five volumes. OHCREL endeavours to interrogate, rather than inertly reiterate, conventional assumptions about literary 'periods', the processes of canon-formation, and the relations between literary and non-literary discourse. It conceives of 'reception' as a complex process of dialogic exchange and, rather than offering large cultural generalizations, it engages in close critical analysis of literary texts. It explores in detail the ways in which English writers' engagement with classical literature casts as much light on the classical originals as it does on the English writers' own cultural context. This second volume covers the years 1558-1660, and explores the reception of the ancient genres and authors in English Renaissance literature, engaging with the major, and many of the minor, writers of the period, including Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser, and Jonson. Separate chapters examine the Renaissance institutions and contexts which shape the reception of antiquity, and an annotated bibliography provides substantial material for further reading.