From Landscape to Literature

by Herendeen, Wyman H.

• ISBN13: 9780820701820
• ISBN10: 0820701823
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1986-04-01
• Publisher: Duquesne Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	3	(18)
Part One: - Pre-Renaissance Contexts Of The River	21	(94)
Landscape to God: The River in the Ancient World	23	(56)
Serpent of the Nile	25	(6)
Lion of Judea	31	(4)
Erymanthian boar, Lernian hydra	35	(16)
Confluence	51	(28)
Figures	74	(5)
Landscape to Literature: Late Roman and Medieval Contexts of the River	79	(36)
Rivers of Empire: The Roman legacy-Seneca and Ausonius	79	(9)
Exegetes and the myth of landscape: Philo Judaeus and the Holy Land	88	(7)
Rivers of grace: allegory and the disembodied river-Catherine of Siena	95	(6)
Rivers of the world: the European landscape and the myth of geography	101	(14)
Figures	111	(4)
Part Two: - Landscape And Literature: Renaissance Rivers and the Emergence of the River Poem	115	(140)
Renaissance Contexts	117	(64)
Old Waters in New Rivers	120	(8)
Secular exegesis and the modern world; Ralegh's History of the World	128	(11)
Geographical contexts: the unified landscape	139	(15)
Literary contexts: public and private landscapes, poets and topographers	154	(27)
Sannazaro	158	(9)
Westcote and the topographers	167	(7)
Figures	174	(7)
Poets and Historians: The River Poem in England from Leland to Spenser	181	(74)
Leland: the shaping of landscape and the making of history	181	(15)
Geography and the myth of history: Camden and the rivers of Concord	196	(15)
The consent of rivers: the consolidation of the national image and the death of Sidney	211	(14)
The landscape transformed: rivers in Fairy Land	225	(30)
Part Three: - The English River Poem in the Seventeenth Century	255	(90)
Spenser's Legacy: Rivers of Time and the Times	257	(88)
The poetry of politics and the politics of poetry: the royal elegy and the Masque	262	(17)
The poet in the landscape: Tudor myth and the Stuart reality-Fletcher and the Spenserian poets	279	(9)
The river divided: public rivers and private voices-Michael Drayton and William Browne	288	(30)
Conclusion
The inadequate image-poets, historians, and the denatured river	318	(9)
Conclusion
Bend in the river: the rejection of myth-poets in search of a landscape	327	(11)
Figures	338	(7)
Notes	345	(26)
Index	371