Abstract
This essay reconsiders the functions of georgic in The Faerie Queene, Book I and A Vewe of the Present State of Ireland, arguing that Virgil plays a crucial role in Spenser’s evolving ethic of human habitation. At the heart of georgic, both Virgilian and Spenserian, lies an ethical conundrum: a double allegiance to peaceful or ameliorative co-existence and to the violent imposition of human will. While he posits what we might call an “ecological” vision of interlocking systems, grounded in affective attachment to abode, Spenser never resolves the violence inherent in human cultivation. Indeed, he offers a further account of its radical persistence.
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