Spenser's 'Angry Ioue': Vergilian Allusion in the First Canto of 'The Faerie Queene'
- Author / Editor
- Rudat, Wolfgang E. H.
Spenser's 'Angry Ioue': Vergilian Allusion in the First Canto of 'The Faerie Queene'
- Published
- Classical and Modern Literature 3.2 (1983): 89-98.
- Description
- Explores the allusion to Virgil's "Georgics" in "Faerie Queene" 1.1.50-53, arguing that Spenser "desexualizes the Vergilian model by removing [its] generative principle" (90) and thereby re-makes the Classical/Christian topos that underlies Chaucer's opening lines of the GP. In Chaucer, the topos anticipates communal pilgrimage (a Roman Catholic motif); in Spenser, it is prelude to personal battle (a Reformed motif) that defeats Catholic heresy.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion