{"product_id":"spenser-and-virgil-the-pastoral-poems-9781526119889","title":"Spenser and Virgil: The Pastoral Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDubbed 'the English Virgil' in his own lifetime, Spenser has been compared to the Augustan laureate ever since. He invited the comparison, expecting a readership intimately familiar with Virgil's works to notice and interpret his rich web of allusion and imitation, but also his significant departures and transformations.This volume considers Spenser's pastoral poetry, the genre which announces the inception of a Virgilian career in \u003ci\u003eThe Shepheardes Calender\u003c\/i\u003e, and to which he returns in \u003ci\u003eColin Clouts Come Home Againe\u003c\/i\u003e, throwing the 'Virgilian career' into reverse. His sustained dialogue with Virgil's \u003ci\u003eEclogues\u003c\/i\u003e bewrays at once a profound debt to Virgil and a deep-seated unease with his values and priorities, not least his subordination of pastoral to epic. Drawing on the commentary tradition and engaging with current critical debates, this study of Spenser's interpretation, imitation and revision of Virgil casts new light on both poets-and on the genre of pastoral itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘The volume concludes with a valuable index of cited passages. Production values throughout are of an admirably highstandard. In short, this is a book that all lovers of classical and English Renaissance literature will profit from consulting. To the degree that they absorb its lessons, they will have a better understanding of some of the most hauntingly beautiful of poetic compositions.’\u003cbr\u003eLee Fratantuono, Ohio Wesleyan University, \u003ci\u003eMedievalia et Humanistica\u003c\/i\u003e, New Series, Number 43\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Pugh is to be commended on a major contribution toSpenser studies and to the study of the reception of Virgil. This is a bookthat deserves to be pondered by Early Modernists and classicists alike.’\u003cbr\u003ePhilip Hardie, Trinity College, Cambridge, The Spenser Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘The volume concludes with a valuable index of cited passages. Production values throughout are of an admirably high standard. In short, this is a book that all lovers of classical and English Renaissance literature will profit from consulting. To the degree that they absorb its lessons, they will have a better understanding of some of the most hauntingly beautiful of poetic compositions.’\u003cbr\u003eLee Fratantuono, Ohio Wesleyan University, Medievalia et Humanistica\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Intertextuality and allegory in Virgil's \u003ci\u003eEclogues\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. Virgilian negotiations in \u003ci\u003eThe Shepheardes Calender\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. Virgilian structure in \u003ci\u003eThe Shepheardes Calender\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. Reshaping the Virgilian cursus: pastoral vocation in 'Astrophel'\u003cbr\u003e5. Reimagining the pastoral muse in 'Colin Clouts Come Home Againe'\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040988791127,"sku":"9781526119889","price":21.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526119889.jpg?v=1750948505","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/spenser-and-virgil-the-pastoral-poems-9781526119889","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}