{"product_id":"9781487596477","title":"Spenser's Famous Flight","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Spenser's famous Flight, Patrick Cheney challenges the received wisdom about the shape and goal of Spenser's literary career. He contends that Spenser's idea of a literary career is not strictly the convential Virgilian pattern of pastoral to epic, but a Christian revision of that pattern in light of Petrarch and the Reformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCheney demonstrates that, far from changing his mind about his career as a result of disillusionment, Spenser embarks upon and completes a daring progress that secures his status as an Orphic poet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn October, Spenser calls his idea of a literary career the 'famous flight.' Both classical and Christian culture has authorized the myth of the winged poet as a primary myth of fame and glory. Cheney shows that throughout his poetry Spenser relies on an image of flight to accomplish his highest goal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47126674211056,"sku":"9781487596477","price":41.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781487596477_p0.jpg?v=1763636346","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781487596477","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}