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Author Watkins, John, 1960-

Title The specter of Dido : Spenser and Virgilian epic / John Watkins.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [1995]
©1995

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  828 S748YWA    Check Shelf
Description xi, 208 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents From Homeric romance to Augustan epic: Virgil's revision of the Odyssey. -- Remembrances of Dido: Medieval and Renaissance transformations of the Aeneid. -- Paulo maiora canamus: epic anticipations and alternatives in The shepheardes calender. -- From Roma Aeterna to the New Hierusalem: the Virgilian origins of Book I of The faerie queene. -- Tempering the two Didos: romance and allegorical epic in Book II. -- "Diverse folk diversely they demed": Virgilian alternatives in Book III.
Subject Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Knowledge -- Literature.
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Characters -- Queens.
Dido (Legendary character) in literature.
Epic poetry, English -- Roman influences.
Carthage (Extinct city) -- In literature.
Queens in literature.
Virgil -- Influence.
Virgil. Aeneis.
Indexed Term English poetry
ISBN 0300058837 alkaline paper
9780300058833 alkaline paper
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