Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Metamorphic verse
  • ch. 1. Minor epic as genre
  • ch. 2. Petrarchan rhetoric
  • ch. 3. Marlowe, the primeval poet
  • ch. 4. Shakespeare, poet and painter
  • ch. 5. Chronicle, history, legend
  • ch. 6. Spenser's Ovidian epics
  • Conclusion: Metamorphosis as literary system.