Architectonics of imitation in Spenser, Daniel, and Drayton /

Exploring the boundaries between poetry and history on three of England's epic literary works, Galbraith argues that they enter into a dialogue with classical and contemporary predecessors with implications for understanding the English Renaissance.

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Main Author: Galbraith, David Ian, 1953-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2000.
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Table of Contents:
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • 1 The Landscape of Allegory
  • Figuring Boundaries in The Faerie Queene
  • 'The Vision Thing': Renaissance Allegory and Its Readers
  • ENGLAND AND ROME IN THE FAERIE QUEENE
  • 2 'All in amaze': Allegory in Book I of The Faerie Queene
  • Spenser's Two Allegories
  • 'The bright and blissfull Reformation'
  • 3 Translatio Imperii in Book III of The Faerie Queene
  • Leaving Troy
  • Violation and Origin
  • POETRY AND HISTORY AFTER THE FAERIE QUEENE
  • 4 'Historian in verse': Daniel's Civil Wars
  • 'Our Lucan'
  • Analogy and Typology in The Civil Wars.
  • The Poet and the Past
  • 5 'A true native Muse': Drayton's Poly-Olbion
  • 'As in a glasse, this Isle survay': The Chorographical Tradition
  • Poet and Historian in Poly-Olbion
  • 'This strange Herculean toyle'
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • Y.