Spenser's Famous Flight
Overview
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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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780802029348
- ISBN-10: 0802029345
- Publisher: University of Toronto Press
- Publish Date: December 1993
- Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.6 x 1.29 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.57 pounds
- Page Count: 360
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