This original book challenges prevailing accounts of English
literary history, arguing that English literature emerged as a
distinct category during the late sixteenth century, as England's
relationship with classical Rome was suffering an unprecedented
strain. Exploring the myths through which poets such as Geffrey
Whitney, William Shakespeare, and John Milton understood the nature
of their art, Sean Keilen shows how they invented archaic origins
for a new kind of writing.
When history obliged English poets to regard themselves as victims
of the Roman Conquest rather than rightful heirs of classical Latin
culture, it also required a redefinition of their relations with
Roman literature. Keilen shows how the poets' search for a new
beginning drew them to rework familiar fables about Orpheus,
Philomela, and Circe, and invent a new point of departure for their
own poetic history.
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