TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cheney,Patrick
TI  - Spenser's Famous Flight
T2  - Heritage
SN  - 9781442631663
U1  - 821/.3 20/eng/20230216
PY  - 1993///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - In Spenser's famous Flight, Patrick Cheney challenges the received wisdom about the shape and goal of Spenser's literary career. He contends that Spenser's idea of a literary career is not strictly the convential Virgilian pattern of pastoral to epic, but a Christian revision of that pattern in light of Petrarch and the Reformation.Cheney demonstrates that, far from changing his mind about his career as a result of disillusionment, Spenser embarks upon and completes a daring progress that secures his status as an Orphic poet.In October, Spenser calls his idea of a literary career the 'famous flight.' Both classical and Christian culture has authorized the myth of the winged poet as a primary myth of fame and glory. Cheney shows that throughout his poetry Spenser relies on an image of flight to accomplish his highest goal
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