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For educated poets and readers in the Renaissance, classical literature was as familiar and accessible as the work of their compatriots and contemporaries - often more so. This volume seeks to recapture that sense of intimacy and immediacy, as scholars from both sides of the modern disciplinary divide come together to eavesdrop on the conversations conducted through allusion and intertextual play in works from Petrarch to Milton and beyond. The essays include discussions of Ariosto, Spenser, Du Bellay, Marlowe, the anonymous drama Caesars Revenge, Shakespeare and Marvell, and look forward to the grand retrospect of Shelley's Adonais. Together, they help us to understand how poets across the ages have thought about their relation to their predecessors, and about their own contributions to what Shelley would call 'that great poem, which all poets.have built up since the beginning of the world'. -- .

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'This illuminating book... will be of fundamental interest to students and scholars both of renaissance and early modern literature and of their classical interactions. It mixes well-known texts and authors with less-known but equally revealing examples, laudably looks to Italian and French as well as English, has a keen eye for political significance, and indubitably demonstrates that important literary effects can be derived from considering the intertextual conversations of poets through extended chains of reception stretching from the ancient world to the Romantics.' International Journal of the Classical Tradition -- .

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Syrithe Pugh is Reader in English at the University of Aberdeen

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