Clarion in the Bower of Bliss: Poetry and Politics in Spenser’s “Muiopotmos”

Ramachandran, Ayesha

doi:10.1086/spsv20p77

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Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare's England

James

2021

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The range of poetic invention that occurred in Renaissance English literature was vast, from the lyric eroticism of the late sixteenth century to the rise of libertinism in the late seventeenth century. Heather James argues that Ovid, as the poet-philosopher of literary innovation and free speech, was the galvanizing force behind this extraordinary level of poetic creativity. Moving beyond mere topicality, she identifies the ingenuity, novelty and audacity of the period's poetry as the political inverse of censorship culture. Considering Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Milton and Wharton among many others, the book explains how free speech was extended into the growing domain of English letters, and thereby presents a new model of the relationship between early modern poetry and political philosophy.

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Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare's England

James

2021

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Spenser’s Fly and Miniature Poetics

Luis-Martínez

2018

English Studies

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Epic Futurity: The Phaeacians, Carthage, and the Tradition

Quint

2023

Comparative Literature

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Contrary to the views of Hegelian critics, epic from its Homeric beginnings has projected a future time and future readers beyond its narrative frame. The genre does not close itself off in a heroic past. The episode of the Phaeacian banquet in the Odyssey places a utopian, technologically advanced and wealthy mercantile society side by side with its heroic world. The Phaeacians who listen to Odysseus’s wanderings and tales of Troy at their banquet figure a future, nonheroic audience for the poem itself. Subsequent imitations of this episode in major epics—the Aeneid, Orlando furioso, Os Lusíadas, Gerusalemme liberata, The Faerie Queene, Paradise Lost—measure a modern, critical distance, fed by science and a commercial economy, upon epic and its heroic values. The genre contains a historical dialectic of past and present from its outset.

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Clarion in the Bower of Bliss: Poetry and Politics in Spenser’s “Muiopotmos”

Cited by 3 publications

References 7 publications

Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare's England

Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare's England

Spenser’s Fly and Miniature Poetics

Epic Futurity: The Phaeacians, Carthage, and the Tradition

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