The Specter of Dido: Spenser and Virgilian Epic.
- Author / Editor
- Watkins, John.
The Specter of Dido: Spenser and Virgilian Epic.
- Published
- New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995.
- Physical Description
- xi, 208 pp.
- Description
- Includes discussion of how Chaucer's influence on Spenser's works inflects the Virgilian "epic paradigm" of the Renaissance poet, observing how in his treatments of Dido in HF and LGW Chaucer "figures his poetic identity . . . in terms of intertextual dialogue" and interpretive dilemmas, and demonstrating how in "Shepheardes Calender" Spenser honors Chaucer/Tityrus “primarily as a moralist,” whereas in "Faerie Queene" (especially Book 3), he incorporates the “plurality of voices and ethical stances” of Chaucerian fabliaux into his epic frame.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
House of Fame
Legend of Good Women
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Canterbury Tales--General