Brown, Richard Danson
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Abstract
This article looks at the half lines in Spenser's Faerie Queene, and their intertextual relationship with Virgil's Aeneid. It considers how the Aeneid was translated into English in the sixteenth century, before examining in depth the half lines in The Faerie Queene. I show that there are sound textual reasons for believing that Spenser intended the majority of these half-dozen lines as a deliberate counterpoint to the more uniform appearance of the rest of his poem, and indeed that revisions to the text first published in 1590 show Spenser varying the placement of half lines for their affective impact.
| Item Type: | Journal Item |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2018 Richard Danson Brown |
| ISSN: | 0968-2112 |
| Keywords: | Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Virgil, Aeneid, sixteenth-century poetry |
| Academic Unit/School: | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities > English & Creative Writing Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) |
| Research Group: | History of Books and Reading (HOBAR) |
| Item ID: | 52703 |
| Depositing User: | Richard Danson Brown |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Dec 2017 15:15 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2019 15:11 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/52703 |
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