Spenser's Ovidian Poetics

by M.L. Stapleton

No history of the longstanding critical tradition of exploring the Spenser-Ovid relationship has been written. In this book Professor Stapleton constructs such a critical history: the annotations of E. K. in The Shepheardes Calender (1579), the Enlightenment editions of The Faerie Queene, the philological mode of the Spenser Variorum (1932-57), and the recent, innovative work of Harry Berger and Colin Burrow. Aside from occasional...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611491355
• ISBN13: 9781611491357
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"