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George rises, not eagle- or "Eyass hauke"-like, but (true to his name) with "the mounting lark"; that Spenser, beginning the canto, has promised to "let downe" the "haughtie string" of epic and resort to strains more appropriately georgic. Rather than seeing a Virgil of variegated works, or recognizing the varied Virgils of eclogue, georgic, and epic, they focus on the idea of the Virgilian rata, the career trajectory whose most important point they locate as its end: the cultural and literary immortality promised in his Aeneid as the translation of Troy's ruins for Rome's "empire without end. The questions with which the georgic poet opens the epyllion -- "Quis deus hanc, Musae, quis nobis extudit artem? |
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