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- catalog abstract ""In Spensers' 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 conventional Virgilian pattern of pastoral to epic, but a Christian revision of that pattern in light of Petrarch and the Reformation." "Spenser begins his literary career with pastoral in The Shepheardes Calender and follows with the first instalment of his epic The Faerie Queene, but then inserts the Petrarchan love lyric, represented by Amoretti and Epithalamion, as a genre of renewal so that he can continue his epic; and eventually he turns from these courtly forms to a contemplative one, the Augustinian-based Fowre Hymnes. In the October eclogue he prophesies his four-genre career, of which the highest goal is an alignment of the Virgilian telos of poetry, fame, with the Augustinian telos of the Christian life, glory. The Petrarchan erotic genre exercises a revolutionary bridging power in that alignment. 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 had 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b4783428.
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description ""In Spensers' 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 conventional Virgilian pattern of pastoral to epic, but a Christian revision of that pattern in light of Petrarch and the Reformation." "Spenser begins his literary career with pastoral in The Shepheardes Calender and follows with the first instalment of his epic The Faerie Queene, but then inserts the Petrarchan love lyric, represented by Amoretti and Epithalamion, as a genre of renewal so that he can continue his epic; and eventually he turns from these courtly forms to a contemplative one, the Augustinian-based Fowre Hymnes. In the October eclogue he prophesies his four-genre career, of which the highest goal is an alignment of the Virgilian telos of poetry, fame, with the Augustinian telos of the Christian life, glory. The Petrarchan erotic genre exercises a revolutionary bridging power in that alignment. 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 had 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-329) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: scanning the famous flight -- Displaying the fluttering wing: the literary career of the new orphic poet -- Pastoral, or proving tender wings: acquiring vatic authority in the The Shepheardes Calender -- Epic, or making the greater flight: enacting vatic virtue in Spenser's allegory of Ralegh and Elizabeth -- Love lyric, or sporting the muse in pleasant mew: renewing vatic virtue in Amoretti and Epithalamion -- Hymn, or flying back to heaven apace: returning to the vatic source in Fowre Hymnes -- Conclusion: rescanning the famous flight in Prothalamion.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 360 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Spenser's famous flight.".
- catalog identifier "0802029345 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Spenser's famous flight.".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press,".
- catalog relation "Spenser's famous flight.".
- catalog spatial "England.".
- catalog subject "821/.3 20".
- catalog subject "Authorship History 16th century.".
- catalog subject "Christianity and literature History 16th century.".
- catalog subject "PR2367.A9 C44 1993".
- catalog subject "Renaissance England.".
- catalog subject "Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 Authorship.".
- catalog subject "Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: scanning the famous flight -- Displaying the fluttering wing: the literary career of the new orphic poet -- Pastoral, or proving tender wings: acquiring vatic authority in the The Shepheardes Calender -- Epic, or making the greater flight: enacting vatic virtue in Spenser's allegory of Ralegh and Elizabeth -- Love lyric, or sporting the muse in pleasant mew: renewing vatic virtue in Amoretti and Epithalamion -- Hymn, or flying back to heaven apace: returning to the vatic source in Fowre Hymnes -- Conclusion: rescanning the famous flight in Prothalamion.".
- catalog title "Spenser's famous flight : a Renaissance idea of a literary career / Patrick Cheney.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".