ABSTRACT
'The obiect whereto all his actions tend': George Chapman's Ouids Banquet of Sence and the Thrill of the Chase by Martin Wheeler
George Chapman's Ouids Banquet of Sence represents an original exegesis of a Neoplatonic eroticism. With reference to Renaissance iconography (including Botticelli's Primavera), contemporary writers (particularly Marsilio Ficino), and other poetical works by Chapman (particularly the Hymnus in Cynthiam), and examination of Chapman's ...