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Spenser's Famous Flight: A Renaissance Idea of a Literary Career
  
Spenser's Famous Flight: A Renaissance Idea of a Literary Career (Hardcover)
by Patrick Cheney (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 360 pages
  • Publisher: University of Toronto Press (Dec 1993)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0802029345
  • ISBN-13: 978-0802029348
  • Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 16.8 x 3.3 cm
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Contends that Edmund Spenser's (1552-99) idea of a perfect literary career was not strictly the conventional Virgilian pattern of pastoral to epic, but a Christian revision of that pattern in light of Petrarch and the Reformation. He sought to combine Virgil's value on fame with Augustine's on glory, bridged by Petrarchan erotic love lyrics, says C

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