Spenser's Famous Flight (Heritage)

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.

• • Author: Patrick Cheney
• • Publisher: University Of Toronto Press
• • Publication Date: Oct 25, 2017
• • Number of Pages: 390 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1487598181
• • ISBN-13: 9781487598181