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Manchester University Press, Manchester
An engaging study that offers new and provocative re-readings of Spenser's pastoral poems, with a focus on Spenser's acknowledged debt to Virgil and his Eclogues. Reception studies, politics and classical studies are interweaved to provide a greater...
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Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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An engaging study that offers new and provocative re-readings of Spenser's pastoral poems, with a focus on Spenser's acknowledged debt to Virgil and his Eclogues. Reception studies, politics and classical studies are interweaved to provide a greater understanding of both poets
Introduction 1. Intertextuality and allegory in Virgil's Eclogues 2. Virgilian negotiations in The Shepheardes Calender 3. Virgilian structure in The Shepheardes Calender 4. Reshaping the Virgilian cursus: pastoral vocation in 'Astrophel' 5. Reimagining the pastoral muse in 'Colin Clouts Come Home Againe' Index. - Includes bibliographical references and indexes. - CIP data; item not viewed