Spenser's Famous Flight: A Renaissance Idea of a Literary CareerUniversity of Toronto Press, 1993 - Počet stran: 360 In Spenser's famous Flight, Patrick Cheney challenges the received wisdom about the shape and goal of Spenser's literary career. He contends that Spenser's idea of a literary career is not strictly the convential Virgilian pattern of pastoral to epic, but a Christian revision of that pattern in light of Petrarch and the Reformation. Cheney demonstrates that, far from changing his mind about his career as a result of disillusionment, Spenser embarks upon and completes a daring progress that secures his status as an Orphic poet. In October, Spenser calls his idea of a literary career the 'famous flight.' Both classical and Christian culture has authorized the myth of the winged poet as a primary myth of fame and glory. Cheney shows that throughout his poetry Spenser relies on an image of flight to accomplish his highest goal. |
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... significance . Traditionally , the dove of Noah signals the new covenant between God and the individual . Typologically , this dove is an Old Testament type of the New Testament dove that critics surprisingly overlook in the Spenser ...
... significance of Colin's nightin- gale cage , I am indebted to my doctoral advisee , Cheryl Hinson . 31 On the crow as a sign of the poetaster , see Pindar , Olympian Ode 11 85–7 ; Castelvetro , The Poetics of Aristotle Translated and ...
... significance . I have also benefited from Dunlop's introductions and notes in Oram et al . 4 Critics generally overlook the avian significance of ' mew ' in Amoretti 80 . But see C.B. Hieatt , ' Stooping ' 347 , 349 ( and her ' Falconry ...
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Scanning the Famous Flight | 3 |
The Literary Career | 23 |
Acquiring Vatic Authority | 77 |
Autorská práva | |
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