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Spenser and Ovid (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Spenser and Ovid (Hardcover, New Ed)
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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.
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