'Novells of his devise': Chaucerian and Virgilian Career Paths in Spenser's 'Februarie' Eclogue
- Author / Editor
- Cheney, Patrick.
'Novells of his devise': Chaucerian and Virgilian Career Paths in Spenser's 'Februarie' Eclogue
- Published
- Patrick Cheney and Frederick A. de Armas, eds. European Literary Careers: The Author from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002), pp. 231-67.
- Description
- Argues that in his references to Tityrus in the "Februarie" eclogue of "The Shepheardes Calender" Spenser represents a "Chaucerian" model of a career path for poets, one that emphasizes novelty and poses a third alternative to the classical Virgilian path and the Renaissance "amateur" one.
- Contributor
- de Armas, Frederick A., ed.
- Alternative Title
- European Literary Careers: The Author from Antiquity to the Renaissance.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion