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Author Watkins, John, 1960- author.

Title The specter of Dido : Spenser and Virgilian epic / John Watkins
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [1995]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 208 pages)
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Knowledge -- Literature
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Characters -- Queens
Virgil -- Influence
Virgil. Aeneis.
SUBJECT Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 fast
Virgil fast
Spenser, Edmund 1552-1599 gnd
Vergilius Maro, Publius v70-v19 gnd
Spenser, Edmund. swd
Vergilius Maro, Publius. swd
Dido. swd
Dido gnd
Aeneis (Virgil) fast
Subject Dido (Legendary character) in literature
Epic poetry, English -- Roman influences
Queens in literature.
POETRY -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Dido (Legendary character) in literature
Epic poetry, English -- Roman influences
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Literature
Queens in literature
Epos
Königin Motiv
Dido (legendarische figuur)
Aeneis (Vergilius)
Receptie.
Koninginnen (vorstinnen)
SUBJECT Carthage (Extinct city) -- In literature
Subject Tunisia -- Carthage (Extinct city)
Genre/Form Literature
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300157604
0300157606