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Item Details
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SPENSER'S FAMOUS FLIGHT
A RENAISSANCE IDEA OF A LITERARY CAREER |
| By: |
Patrick Cheney |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£59.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0802029345 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780802029348 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 December, 1993 |
| Pages: |
360 |
| Description: |
Cheney shows that throughout his poetry Spenser relies on an image of flight to accomplish his highest goal. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
Illustrations, facsims. |
| Publication: |
Canada |
| Imprint: |
University of Toronto Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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