Spenser and Virgil

Syrithe Pugh is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Aberdeen

‘The volume concludes with a valuable index of cited passages. Production values throughout are of an admirably highstandard. In short, this is a book that all lovers of classical and English Renaissance literature will profit from consulting. To the degree that they absorb its lessons, they will have a better understanding of some of the most hauntingly beautiful of poetic compositions.’Lee Fratantuono, Ohio Wesleyan University, Medievalia et Humanistica, New Series, Number 43‘Pugh is to be commended on a major contribution toSpenser studies and to the study of the reception of Virgil. This is a bookthat deserves to be pondered by Early Modernists and classicists alike.’Philip Hardie, Trinity College, Cambridge, The Spenser Review‘The volume concludes with a valuable index of cited passages. Production values throughout are of an admirably high standard. In short, this is a book that all lovers of classical and English Renaissance literature will profit from consulting. To the degree that they absorb its lessons, they will have a better understanding of some of the most hauntingly beautiful of poetic compositions.’Lee Fratantuono, Ohio Wesleyan University, Medievalia et Humanistica

• Introduction1. Intertextuality and allegory in Virgil's Eclogues2. Virgilian negotiations in The Shepheardes Calender3. Virgilian structure in The Shepheardes Calender4. Reshaping the Virgilian cursus: pastoral vocation in 'Astrophel'5. Reimagining the pastoral muse in 'Colin Clouts Come Home Againe'Index