Spenser's Faerie Queene and Cicero's De oratore

Author： Anderson Judith H.  

Publisher： American Mathematical Society

ISSN： 2167-8529

Source： Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual, Vol.25, Iss.1, 2010-06, pp. : 363-368

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Abstract

Cicero's De oratore has generally not been recognized as a significant influence on The Faerie Queene. Yet connections between this dialogue by the great republican orator and Spenser's first, second, and sixth books indicate that it is. Cicero's widely known treatment of rhetoric bears suggestively on Spenser's thinking about poetic rhetoric, society, and their relationship.

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