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Architectonics of imitation in Spenser, Daniel, and Drayton

Title

Architectonics of imitation in Spenser, Daniel, and Drayton / David Galbraith.

Author

Galbraith, David Ian, 1953-

Publication

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2000]
©2000

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Description

viii, 229 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"This study explores the treatment of the boundaries between poetry and history in three epic literary works: Spenser's Faerie Queene, Samuel Daniel's Civil Wars, and Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion. David Galbraith argues that each of the three national poems enters into a dialogue with classical and more contemporary predecessors and that this relationship has profound implications for understanding the English Renaissance. He explores the importance for each poem of various aspects of the relationship between England and Rome and the significance of the recurring spatial metaphors by which the territories of poetry and history are constituted, negotiated, and traversed. By presenting historically and theoretically inflected readings of the poems, Galbraith gives new interpretation to important problems of allegory and poetic imitation."--Jacket

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-223) and index.

Contents

1 Landscape of Allegory 3 -- Figuring Boundaries in The Faerie Queene 4 -- 'The Vision Thing': Renaissance Allegory and Its Readers 17 -- England and Rome in the Faerie Queene -- 2 'All in amaze': Allegory in Book I of The Faerie Queene 31 -- Spenser's Two Allegories 32 -- 'The bright and blissfull Reformation' 44 -- 3 Translatio Imperii in Book III of The Faerie Queene 52 -- Leaving Troy 53 -- Violation and Origin 65 -- Poetry and History After the Faerie Queene -- 4 'Historian in verse': Daniel's Civil Wars 77 -- 'Our Lucan' 81 -- Analogy and Typology in The Civil Wars 87 -- Poet and the Past 101 -- 5 'A true native Muse': Drayton's Poly-Olbion 108 -- 'As in a glasse, this Isle survay': The Chorographical Tradition 113 -- Poet and Historian in Poly-Olbion 121 -- 'This strange Herculean toyle' 129.

ISBN

0802044514
9780802044518

LCCN

2001326344

OCLC

ocm43278471
43278471
SCSB-14503787

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library