Contents: Introduction Spenser's new Fasti: Ovidian strategies of protest in The Shepheardes ... more Contents: Introduction Spenser's new Fasti: Ovidian strategies of protest in The Shepheardes Calender Epic idolatry and concupiscent romance in Book I of The Faerie Queene Ovid and the limitations of temperance in Book II of The Faerie Queene Unbinding love: Britomart's Ovidian inquest Vates profugus: love, exile and authority in the poems of 1595 Sors mea rupit opus: exile and the 1596 Faerie Queene Spenser, Ovid and political myth-making: Mutabilitie's challenge to the ideology of power Bibliography Index.
Herrick's 'The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home' is a polished, disturbing and deeply ambivalent poem, ... more Herrick's 'The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home' is a polished, disturbing and deeply ambivalent poem, which anatomizes relations between wealthy landowners and poor labourers with startling perspicacity. The class of unpropertied rural labourers it depicts were facing unprecedented poverty at the time it was written. While the poem's exact date is uncertain, scholarly estimates span a period of which Peter Bowden writes 'The third, fourth, and fifth decades of the seventeenth century witnessed extreme hardship in England, and were probably among the most terrible years through which the country has ever passed.' 1 The frequent bad harvests of these years impacted heavily on the poorest, coming as they did after a long period of rising food prices, increasing population, growing unemployment, and enclosure of common land, which had traditionally provided a vital safety-net for the poor: from 1500 to 1650, Alan Everitt observes, 'the labouring community, as a whole, was being gradually disinherited and impoverished'. 2 Food riots, and even occasional deaths from starvation, continued through the 1640s. 3 Herrick's poem is often discussed
This is my chapter for the edited volume 'Conversations: Classical and Renaissance Intert... more This is my chapter for the edited volume 'Conversations: Classical and Renaissance Intertextuality' published by Manchester University Press. It is about the way Adonis is used as a symbol for literary immortality conferred through poetic imitation, in the minor genre of lament for a fellow poet which originates in the 'Lament for Bion', tracing its influence through Statius and Spenser to Shelley's 'Adonais'.
Contents: Introduction Spenser's new Fasti: Ovidian strategies of protest in The Shepheardes ... more Contents: Introduction Spenser's new Fasti: Ovidian strategies of protest in The Shepheardes Calender Epic idolatry and concupiscent romance in Book I of The Faerie Queene Ovid and the limitations of temperance in Book II of The Faerie Queene Unbinding love: Britomart's Ovidian inquest Vates profugus: love, exile and authority in the poems of 1595 Sors mea rupit opus: exile and the 1596 Faerie Queene Spenser, Ovid and political myth-making: Mutabilitie's challenge to the ideology of power Bibliography Index.
Herrick's 'The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home' is a polished, disturbing and deeply ambivalent poem, ... more Herrick's 'The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home' is a polished, disturbing and deeply ambivalent poem, which anatomizes relations between wealthy landowners and poor labourers with startling perspicacity. The class of unpropertied rural labourers it depicts were facing unprecedented poverty at the time it was written. While the poem's exact date is uncertain, scholarly estimates span a period of which Peter Bowden writes 'The third, fourth, and fifth decades of the seventeenth century witnessed extreme hardship in England, and were probably among the most terrible years through which the country has ever passed.' 1 The frequent bad harvests of these years impacted heavily on the poorest, coming as they did after a long period of rising food prices, increasing population, growing unemployment, and enclosure of common land, which had traditionally provided a vital safety-net for the poor: from 1500 to 1650, Alan Everitt observes, 'the labouring community, as a whole, was being gradually disinherited and impoverished'. 2 Food riots, and even occasional deaths from starvation, continued through the 1640s. 3 Herrick's poem is often discussed
This is my chapter for the edited volume 'Conversations: Classical and Renaissance Intert... more This is my chapter for the edited volume 'Conversations: Classical and Renaissance Intertextuality' published by Manchester University Press. It is about the way Adonis is used as a symbol for literary immortality conferred through poetic imitation, in the minor genre of lament for a fellow poet which originates in the 'Lament for Bion', tracing its influence through Statius and Spenser to Shelley's 'Adonais'.
Conversations: Classical and Renaissance Intertextuality, 2019
This is my chapter for the edited volume 'Conversations: Classical and Renaissance Intertextualit... more This is my chapter for the edited volume 'Conversations: Classical and Renaissance Intertextuality' forthcoming from Aberdeen University Press. It is about the way Adonis is used as a symbol for literary immortality conferred through poetic imitation, in the minor genre of lament for a fellow poet which originates in the 'Lament for Bion', tracing its influence through Statius and Spenser to Shelley's 'Adonais'.
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