Allegorical Poetics and the Epic: The Renaissance Tradition to Paradise Lost - Paperback

by Mindele Anne Treip (Author)

Literary allegory has deep roots in early reading and interpretation of Scripture and classical epic and myth. In this substantial study, Mindele Treip presents an overview of the history and theory of allegorical exegesis upon Scripture, poetry, and especially the epic from antiquity to the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, with close focus on the Renaissance and on the triangular literary relationship of Tasso, Spenser, and Milton. Exploring the different ways in which the term alle

Author Biography

Mindele Anne Treip is Fellow in English at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge University. She is also the author of two other books and a number of iconographical articles on Milton.