Books by Syrithe Pugh

An engaging study that offers new and provocative re-readings of Spenser's pastoral poems, with a focus on Spenser's acknowledged debt to Virgil and his Eclogues. Reception studies, politics and classical studies are interweaved to provide a greater understanding of both poets. -- .

Focuses on royalist polemic and a sophisticated use of classical allusion. This study brings nuance to our understanding of literary royalism, and considers the interconnections between politics and poetics. It is of interest to those are concerned with politics in seventeenth-century literature or with classical reception.

In 'Spenser and Ovid', Syrithe Pugh gives a sustained account of Ovid's presence in the Spenser canon, uncovering evidence to reveal thematic and formal debts many of Spenser's poems owe to Ovid. Her study spans Spenser's career from the inaugural Shepheardes Calender to what was probably his last poem, 'The Mutabilitie Cantos'.