The ovidian vogue : literary fashion and imitative practice in late Elizabethan England

The ovidian vogue : literary fashion and imitative practice in late Elizabethan England /

"The Roman poet Ovid was one of the most-imitated classical writers of the Elizabethan age and a touchstone for generations of English writers. In The Ovidian Vogue, Daniel Moss argues that poets appropriated Ovid not just to connect with the ancient past but also to communicate and compete wit...

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Main Author: Moss, Daniel David, 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2014
Subjects:
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Adaptations > History and criticism.
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Parodies, imitations, etc. > History and criticism.
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Appreciation > England.
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Influence.
English poetry > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Imitation in literature.
English literature > Roman influences.
Literature and society > England > History > 16th century.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: "Note how she quotes the leaves"
  • 1 Impotence and Stillbirth: Nashe, Shakespeare, and the Ovidian Debut
  • 2 Shadow and Corpus: The Shifting Figure of Ovid in Chapman's Early Poetry
  • 3 Ovid in the Godless Poem: Allusive Rebellion in Edmund Spenser's Legend of Justice
  • 4 The Post-Metamorphic Landscape in Drayton's Endimion and Phoebe and Englands Heroicall Epistles 119 5 The Brief Ovidian Career of John Donne
  • Conclusion: "It sticks strangely, whatever it is."

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