Spenser's Famous Flight: A Renaissance Idea of a Literary Career

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University 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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Scanning the Famous Flight
3
The Literary Career
23
Acquiring Vatic Authority
77
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Patrick Cheney is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University.

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