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. -- .
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