A01=Syrithe Pugh
Author_Syrithe Pugh
Book III
Book VI
calender
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classical reception studies
counter-imperial discourse
Dynastic Prophecy
Elizabethan poetry analysis
English Renaissance literature
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exile
faerie
Faerie Queene
False Dream
literary influence of antiquity
Locus Amoenus
Mayden Queene
Mother Hubberds Tale
Mount Acidale
Mutabilitie Cantos
ovid's
Ovid's Exile
Ovid's Exile Poetry
Ovid's Persona
Ovid's Tristia
ovidian
Ovidian Poetics
Ovidian Romance
Ovidian Subtext
Ovidian themes in Spenserian works
poems
poetry
political myth in literature
queene
shepheardes
Shepheardes Calender
spenser's
Spenser's Career
Spenser's Poems
Spenser's Poetry
Virgil's Underworld
Virgilian Epic
Virgilian Intentions
Vulcan's Net
Product details
- ISBN 9780754639053
- Weight: 566g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jan 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Syrithe Pugh, University of Aberdeen, UK
