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Spenser's Famous Flight
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- Book 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.
- About The Author
- Patrick Cheney is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781487598181
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press, (25 October 2017)
- Number of Pages
- 390
- Weight
- 560 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 229 x 150 x 25 mm
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