I share Marshall's enthusiasm for Pigman's classic article and the reference is RenQ 33 (1980) 1-32 and also of course Thomas Greene, The Light in Troy will give you the categories which Pigman is revising--all this on FQ but applicable to Amoretti; they rank species of imitatio in terms of how adversarial (Bloomian) they are.At 05:45 PM 6/30/00 -0400, you wrote: >George Pigman is very good on Renaissance ideas of >imitation. He had a couple of articles on the subject(I >think in RQ) about 20 years ago--and I think it may be >covered in his book on Elegy. > >On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 17:01:59 +0200 Yngve >=?iso-8859-1?Q?Nordg=E5rd?= ><[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> I'm writing a paper on literary imitation in Renaissance England, and >> particularly in Spenser's Amoretti. Does anybody have references to good >> books or articles concerning this subject? >> >> Regards, >> >> -- >> Yngve Nordgaard, graduate student of comparative literature >> University of Oslo, Norway > >---------------------- >Marshall Grossman >[log in to unmask] > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%