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- Title
The Last Early Modern Epyllion: William Sampson's Love's Metamorphosis, Or: Apollo and Daphne.
- Authors
Stelzer(bio), Emanuel
- Abstract
William Sampson's Ovidian epyllion Love's Metamorphosis, Or: Apollo and Daphne , written after 1645, has remained in manuscript only (Harley MS 6947, no. 41, fols. 318–36, British Library) and has received virtually no scholarly attention. It is a willful archaism modeled on Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis. The poem was dedicated to Margaret Cavendish, perhaps on the occasion of her return from her exile on the Continent in 1651. This essay considers why Sampson chose this genre, what his relationship with the Cavendishes was, how he expected the poem to be received in the context of the Civil War and Interregnum, and what the dedication to Cavendish tells us about female readership.
- Subjects
SAMPSON, William; METAMORPHOSIS; CIVIL war; ARCHAISMS (Linguistics); INTERTEXTUALITY
- Publication
Huntington Library Quarterly, 2020, Vol 83, Issue 2, pN.PAG
- ISSN
0018-7895
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/hlq.2020.0008