TY - BOOK ID - 78494707 TI - Spenser and Virgil AU - Pugh, Syrithe AU - Lethbridge, J B PY - 2016 SN - 1526119889 1526103885 9781526103895 1526103893 9781526103888 9781526101174 1526101173 9781526119889 PB - Manchester DB - UniCat KW - Pastoral poetry, English KW - History and criticism. KW - Virgil KW - Spenser, Edmund, KW - Influence KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Pastoral poetry, English. KW - Literature KW - Literature & Literary Studies KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General KW - Biography, Literature & Literary studies KW - English pastoral poetry KW - English poetry KW - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe. KW - Eclogues. KW - Edmund Spenser. KW - Renaissance. KW - Servius. KW - The Shepheardes Calender. KW - Virgilian career. KW - pastoral poetry. KW - poetic programme. KW - the English Virgil. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78494707 AB - Dubbed 'the English Virgil' in his own lifetime, Spenser has been compared to the Augustan laureate ever since. He invited the comparison, expecting a readership intimately familiar with Virgil's works to notice and interpret his rich web of allusion and imitation, but also his significant departures and transformations.This volume considers Spenser's pastoral poetry, the genre which announces the inception of a Virgilian career in The Shepheardes Calender, and to which he returns in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, throwing the 'Virgilian career' into reverse. His sustained dialogue with Virgil's Eclogues bewrays at once a profound debt to Virgil and a deep-seated unease with his values and priorities, not least his subordination of pastoral to epic. Drawing on the commentary tradition and engaging with current critical debates, this study of Spenser's interpretation, imitation and revision of Virgil casts new light on both poets-and on the genre of pastoral itself. ER -