The Ovidian Vogue

The Ovidian Vogue
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 358
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ISBN-10 : 9781442617483
ISBN-13 : 1442617489
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Book Synopsis The Ovidian Vogue by : Daniel D. Moss

Download or read book The Ovidian Vogue written by Daniel D. Moss and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2014-09-17 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman poet Ovid was one of the most-imitated classical writers of the Elizabethan age and a touchstone for generations of English writers. In The Ovidian Vogue, Daniel Moss argues that poets appropriated Ovid not just to connect with the ancient past but also to communicate and compete within late Elizabethan literary culture. Moss explains how in the 1590s rising stars like Thomas Nashe and William Shakespeare adopted Ovidian language to introduce themselves to patrons and rivals, while established figures like Edmund Spenser and Michael Drayton alluded to Ovid’s works as a way to map their own poetic development. Even poets such as George Chapman, John Donne, and Ben Jonson, whose early work pointedly abandoned Ovid as cliché, could not escape his influence. Moss’s research exposes the literary impulses at work in the flourishing of poetry that grappled with Ovid’s cultural authority.


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