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Book SynopsisMoss's research exposes the literary impulses at work in the flourishing of poetry that grappled with Ovid's cultural authority.
Trade Review'Moss is refreshingly conversant with every text he analyzes in his impressive fashion, original in his ideas and approach while possessed of traditional close-reading skills.' -- M.L. Stapelton Modern Philology vol 113:04:2016 'Highly recommended.' -- B.E. Brandt Choice Magazine vol 52:07:2015 'Moss's study draws careful attention to the curious commingling of Ovidian and anti-Ovidian rhetoric in the era, His deft handling of this rich and promising line of inquiry may well suggest new paths for scholars exploring the character of late Elizabethan Ovidianism.' -- Lindsay Ann Reid Sixteenth Century Journal vol46:03:2015 'The Ovidian Vogue explores an impressive range of mostly late Elizabethan narrative poetry and thereby contributes an interesting and valuable argument to the current body of work on Ovidianism in that period.' -- Sarah Carter Renaissance Quarterly vol 68:04:2014
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: "Note how she quotes the leaves" Impotence and Stillbirth: Nashe, Shakespeare, and the Ovidian Debut Shadow and Corpus: The Shifting Figure of Ovid in Chapman's Early Poetry Ovid in the Godless Poem: Allusive Rebellion in Spenser's Legend of Justice The Post-Metamorphic Landscape in Drayton's Endymion and Phoebe and England's Heroical Epistles The Brief Ovidian Career of John Donne Conclusion: "It sticks strangely, whatever it is" Bibliography Notes
