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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Spenser and Virgilian Epic John Watkins. The Specter of Dido Spenser and Virgilian Epic JOHN WATKINS I Spenser and Virgilian Epic JOHN WATKINS This pathbreaking book. Front Cover.
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