The Specter of Dido: Spenser and Virgilian EpicThis book dismantles the stereotype of Spenser as one who blurs earlier epic traditions. John Watkins's examinations of Spenser's major poetry reveal a poet keenly attuned to dissonances among his classical, medieval, and early modern sources. By bringing Virgil into an intertextual dialogue with Chaucer, Ariosto, and Tasso, and several Neo-Latin commentators, Spenser transformed the most patriarchal of genres into a vehicle for praising the Virgin Queen. |
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| Title | The Specter of Dido: Spenser and Virgilian Epic |
| Author | John Watkins |
| Edition | unabridged |
| Publisher | Yale University Press, 1995 |
| ISBN | 0300058837, 9780300058833 |
| Length | 208 pages |
| Subjects | › › Poetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
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