Spenser

Spenser & Virgil

Beretta, Ilva. "'The World's a Garden': Garden Poetry and the English Renaissance." Diss. Uppsala Universitet, 1993.

Bush, Douglas. Mythology and the Renaissance Tradition in English Poetry. 1932. Rev. New York: Norton, 1963.

Cheney, Patrick. Marlowe's Counterfeit Profession: Ovid, Spenser, Counter-Nationhood. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1997.

Cheney, Patrick. Spenser's Famous Flight: A Renaissance Idea of a Literary Career. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1993.

DeNeef, A. Leigh. "Ploughing Virgilian Furrows: The Genres of Faerie Queene VI." John Donne Journal 1 (1982): 151-68.

Fletcher, Angus. The Prophetic Moment: An Essay on Spenser. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1971.

Hamilton, A. C. "Spenser's Treatment of Myth." ELH 26 (1959): 335-54.

Hughes, Merritt Y. "The Arthurs of The Faerie Queene." Études anglaises 6 (1953): 193-213.

Hughes, Merritt Y. Virgil and Spenser. University of California Publications in English vol. 2 no. 3. Berkeley and Los Angeles: U of California P, 1929.

Miller, David Lee. "Spenser's Vocation, Spenser's Career." ELH 50 (1983): 197-231.

Neuse, Richard. "Milton and Spenser: The Virgilian Triad Revisited." ELH 45 (1978): 606-32.

O'Connell, Michael. Mirror and Veil: The Historical Dimension of Spenser's Faerie Queene. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina, 1977. (Political and moral parallels; also very good on Servius' approach to history in the poem.)

Prescott, Anne Lake. "The Laurel and the Myrtle: Spenser and Ronsard." Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age. Ed. Patrick Cheney and Lauren Silberman. Studies in the English Renaissance. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2000. 63-78.

Rathborne, Isabel E. The Meaning of Spenser's Fairyland. 1937. Rpt. New York: Russell & Russell, 1965.

Suzuki, Mihoko. "'Unfitly Yokt Together in One Teeme': Vergil and Ovid in Faerie Queene, III.ix." English Literary Renaissance 17 (1987): 172-85.

Webb, William Stanford. "Vergil in Spenser's Epic Theory." ELH 4 (1937): 62-84.

Spenser & the Appendix Vergiliana

Rasmussen, Mark David. "Complaint and the Poetic Career: Catullus, Virgil, Chaucer, Spenser." Diss. Johns Hopkins, 1993.

Emerson, Oliver Farrar. "Spenser's 'Virgils Gnat.'" JEGP 17 (1918): 94-118. Shows that Spenser used Bembo's text, not Scaliger's; discusses individual renderings, departures, etc.

Lotspeich, Henry G. "Spenser's Virgils Gnat and Its Latin Original." ELH 2 (1935): 235-41.

Thomsen, Kerri Lynne. "A Note on Spenser's Translation of Culex." Spenser Studies 12 (1998, for 1991): 205-06.

Spenser & the Eclogues

Bernard, John D. "'June' and the Structure of Spenser's Shepheardes Calender." Philological Quarterly 60 (1981): 305-22.

Breen, John. "Edmund Spenser's Exile and the Politics and Poetics of Pastoral." Cahiers élisabéthains 53 (1998): 27-41.

Cain, Thomas. Praise in The Faerie Queene. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1978.

Hubbard, Thomas K. The Pipes of Pan: Intertextuality and Literary Filiation in the Pastoral Tradition from Theocritus to Milton. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1998.

Hughes, Merritt Y. "Spenser and the Greek Pastoral Triad." Studies in Philology 20 (1923): 187-90.

Kennedy, William J. "The Virgilian Legacies of Petrarch's Bucolicum Carmen and Spenser's Shepheardes Calender." Pellegrini 79-106.

Laing, Arthur Michael Haycock. "Pastoral Paradox: Studies in Theocritus, Virgil, Barclay, and Spenser." Diss. U of Toronto, 1979.

Lindhelm, Nancy. "Spenser's Virgilian Pastoral: The Case for September." Spenser Studies 11 (1994): 1-16.

Lindhelm, Nancy. "The Virgilian Design of The Shepheardes Calender." Spenser Studies 13 (1999): 1-21.

Luborsky, Ruth S. "The Allusive Presentation of The Shepheardes Calender." Spenser Studies 1 (1980): 29-68. [Includes discussion of Virgil commentaries.]

Lupton, Julia Reinhard. "Home-Making in Ireland: Virgil's Eclogue I and Book VI of The Faerie Queene." Spenser Studies 8 (1987): 119-45.

Markey, Timothy. "The Worke of Imitation: Virgil's Eclogues in England from Ascham to Milton." Diss. Harvard, 1996.

McCabe, Richard A. "Annotating Anonymity, or Putting a Gloss on The Shepheardes Calender." Ma(r)king the Text: The Presentation of Meaning on the Literary Page. Ed. Joe Bray, Miriam Handley, and Anne C. Henry. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. 35-54. [On E.K. and Virgil commentary.]

McCabe, Richard A. "Edmund Spenser, Poet of Exile." Proceedings of the British Academy 80 (1993): 73-103.

Patterson, Annabel. Pastoral and Ideology: Virgil to Valéry. Berkeley and Los Angeles: U of California P, 1987.

Popham, Elizabeth Anne. "The Concept of Arcadia in the English Literary Renaissance: Pastoral Societies in the Works of Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton." Diss. Queen's U at Kingston, 1982.

Ridgway, Christopher L. "Pastoral and the Shepheardes Calender." Diss U of York, 1987.

Rosenberg, D. M. Oaten Reeds and Trumpets: Pastoral and Epic in Virgil, Spenser, and Milton. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 1981.

Schenck, Celeste Marguerite. Mourning and Panegyric: The Poetics of Pastoral Ceremony. University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1988. Ch. 1: "The Funeral Elegy and Careerism: Theocritus, Virgil, and Spenser." 33-53.

Smith, Bruce R. "On Reading The Shepheardes Calender." Spenser Studies 1 (1980): 69-94. [Includes discussion of Virgil commentaries.]

Thorton, Bruce. "Rural Dialectic: Pastoral, Georgic, and The Shepheardes Calender." Spenser Studies 9 (1991): 1-20.

Whitworth, Stephen. "The Name of the Ancients: Humanist Homoerotics and the Sign of Pastoral." Diss. U of Michigan, 1995.

Spenser & the Georgics

Ettin, Andrew V. "The Georgics in The Faerie Queene." Spenser Studies 3 (1982): 57-71.

Fowler, Alastair. "The Beginnings of English Georgic." Renaissance Genres: Essays on Theory, History, and Interpretation. Ed. Barbara Kiefer Lewalski. Harvard English Studies 14. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1986. 105-25.

Low, Anthony. The Georgic Revolution. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1985.

Loewenstein, Joseph. "Echo's Ring: Orpheus and Spenser's Career." English Literary Renaissance 16 (1986): 287-302.

Sessions, William A. "Spenser's Georgics." English Literary Renaissance 10 (1980): 202-38.

Thorton, Bruce. "Rural Dialectic: Pastoral, Georgic, and The Shepheardes Calender." Spenser Studies 9 (1991): 1-20.

Tylus, Jane. "Spenser, Virgil, and the Politics of Poetic Labor." ELH 55 (1988): 53-77.

Spenser & the Aeneid

Abella, Olga. "Toward the True Balance of Love: The Role of the Women in Defining the Epic Hero, from Symbolic Object to Co-Hero." Diss. State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1989.

Bellamy, Elizabeth J. "Pagan Prophecy and Christian Revelation: A Reassessment of Virgilian Parody in The Faerie Queene, I.v." Spenser at Kalamazoo 1984. Ed. Francis G. Greco. Clarion: English Dept. of Clarion U of Pennsylvania, 1984. 23-29. (Includes abstract and response by John D. Bernard.)

Bellamy, Elizabeth J. Translations of Power: Narcissism and the Unconscious in Epic History. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1992.

Biow, Douglas. Mirabile Dictu: Representations of the Marvelous in Medieval and Renaissance Epic. Stylus: Studies in Medieval Culture. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1996.

Bono, Barbara J. Literary Transvaluation: From Vergilian Epic to Shakespearean Tragicomedy. Berkeley and Los Angeles: U of California P, 1984.

Beranek, Bernard Francis. "Forgotten Excellence: The Sins of the Flesh and the Sententiæ of the Bower of Bliss." Diss. Duquesne U, 1979. [On the descensus naturalis of Bernardus Silvestris.]

Blissett, William. "Caves, Labyrinths, and The Faerie Queene." Unfolded Tales: Essays on Renaissance Romance. Eds. George M. Logan and Gordon Teskey. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1989. 281-311.

Brinkley, Robert A. "Spenser's Muiopotmos and the Politics of Metamorphosis." ELH 48 (1981): 668-76.

Burrow, Colin. Epic Romance from Homer to Milton. Oxford: Clarendon, 1993.

Burrow, Colin. "Spenser and Classical Traditions." The Cambridge Companion to Spenser. Ed. Andrew Hadfield. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001. 217-36.

Cain, Thomas. Praise in The Faerie Queene. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1978.

Caldwell, Ellen Cashwell. "The Breach of Time: History and Violence in the Aeneid, The Faerie Queene, and 2 Henry VI." Diss. U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1986.

Cook, Patrick John. "From Ariosto to Milton: Generic Composition in Renaissance Epic." Diss. U of California, Berkeley, 1991.

Cook, Patrick J. Milton, Spenser and the Epic Tradition. Aldershot: Scolar, 1996.

DiMatteo, Anthony. "Spenser's Venus-Virgo: The Poetics and Interpretative History of a Dissembling Figure." Spenser Studies 10 (1992): 37-70.

Fichter, Andrew John. "Epic and the Vision of Empire: Historiography in Virgil, Ariosto, and Spenser." Diss. Yale, 1974.

Fichter, Andrew. Poets Historical: Dynastic Epic in the Renaissance. New Haven: Yale UP, 1982.

Fike, Matthew Allen. "The Descent into Hell in The Faerie Queene." Diss. U of Michigan, 1988.

Galbraith, David. Architectonics of Imitation in Spenser, Daniel, and Drayton. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2000.

Garrison, James D. Pietas from Vergil to Dryden. University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1992.

Gutierrez, Nancy. "'Limbo Lake' in The Faerie Queene, I.ii.32." Notes and Queries 32 (1985): 23.

Herendeen, Wyman H. "Spenserian Specifics: Spenser's Appropriation of a Renaissance Topos." Medievalia et Humanistica n.s. 10 (1981): 159-88. [Argues, in part, that S. appropriates V's representation of rivers as 'the boundary which both separates myth and history' (168).]

Hill, Sarah Jean. "Feminine Architypes/Feminine Culturetypes: Images of Women in the Aeneid, The Faerie Queene, and Paradise Lost." Diss. Purdue, 1993.

Hughes, Merritt Y. "Virgilian Allegory and The Faerie Queene." PMLA 44 (1929): 696-705.

Jewell, Alice Karnes. "From Homer to Milton: A Study of Invocations in Epic Poetry." Diss. U of Arkansas, 1998.

Krier, T. M. "The Mysteries of the Muses: Spenser's Faerie Queene, II.3 and the Epic Tradition of the Goddess Observed." Spenser Studies 7 (1986): 59-91.

Krier, Theresa M. Gazing on Secret Sights: Spenser, Classical Imitation, and the Decorums of Vision. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1990.

Leslie, Michael. Spenser's "Fierce Warres and Faithfull Loves": Martial and Chivalric Symbolism in The Faerie Queene. Cambridge, England: Brewer and Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble, 1983.

Maresca, Thomas E. Three English Epics: Studies in Chaucer, Spenser, and Milton. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1980. [On the influence of Fulgentius and Bernardus Silvestris.]

Mitsi, Efterpi. "Writing against Pictures: A Study of Ekphrasis in Epics by Homer, Virgil, Ariosto, Tasso and Spenser." Diss. New York U, 1991.

Morey, James H. "Spenser's Mythic Adaptations in Muiopotmos." Spenser Studies 9 (1988): 49-59.

Quitslund, Jon A. Spenser's Supreme Fiction: Platonic Natural Philosophy and The Faerie Queene. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2001. Ch. 4: "Platonic Natural Philosophy in the Aeneid."

Radliff, Julie Lee. "And Knew Not Eating Death: Banquet Hostesses in Renaissance Epic Poetry." Diss. U of Colorado, Boulder, 1996.

Rathborne, Isabel E. "The Political Allegory of the Florimell-Marinell Story." ELH 12 (1945): 279-89. (Imperial destiny in the Aeneid.)

Rudat, Wolfgang E. H. "Spenser's 'Angry Iove': Vergilian Allusion in the First Canto of The Faerie Queene." Classical and Modern Literature 3 (1983): 89-98.

Scott, Shirley Clay. "From Polydorus to Fradubio: The History of a Topos." Spenser Studies 7 (1986): 27-57.

Suzuki, Mihoko. "Helen's Daughters: Women as Emblem in the Matter of Troy." Diss. Yale, 1983.

Suzuki, Mihoko. Metamorphoses of Helen: Authority, Difference, and the Epic. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1989.

Walker, Julia M. "Spenser's Elizabeth Portrait and the Fiction of Dynastic Epic." Modern Philology 90 (1992): 172-99.

Waswo, Richard. "The History That Literature Makes." New Literary History 19 (1988): 541-64. [Colonialism and poetry.]

Watkins, John. "'Neither of Idle Shewes, nor of False Charmes Aghast': Transformations of Virgilian Ekphrasis in Chaucer and Spenser." Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 23 (1993): 345-63.

Watkins, John. The Specter of Dido: Spenser and Virgilian Epic. New Haven: Yale UP, 1995.

Watkins, John Allen. "Spenser and the Virgilian Heritage." Diss. Yale, 1991.

Wells, Robin Headlam. Spenser's Faerie Queene and the Cult of Elizabeth. London and Canberra: Croom Helm and Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble, 1983.

Williams, Kathleen. "Venus and Diana: Some Uses of Myth in The Faerie Queene." ELH 28 (1961): 101-20. Rpt. in Hamilton, Essential Articles 202-19.

Wofford, Susanne Lindgren. "The Choice of Achilles: The Epic Counterplot in Homer, Virgil and Spenser." Diss. Yale, 1982.

Wofford, Susanne Lindgren. The Choice of Achilles: The Ideology of Figure in the Epic. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1992.