The Landscape of the Mind: Pastoralism and Platonic Theory in Tasso's Aminta and Shakespeare's Early Comedies |
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... Renaissance poetic mind . But satisfying explanations of this are more difficult to come by - William Empson's studies in verbal ambiguity aside . The pastoral play is virtually invented by Poliziano around 1480 ; without mentioning him ...
... Renaissance poetic mind . But satisfying explanations of this are more difficult to come by - William Empson's studies in verbal ambiguity aside . The pastoral play is virtually invented by Poliziano around 1480 ; without mentioning him ...
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... Renaissance shepherd , Symonds had done the same for Orpheus , the personification of a reviving antique culture , a ... Renaissance ( Leipzig , 1927 ) , p . 140. Cf. Platonische Renaissance , pp . 66–74 ; A. O. Lovejoy , The Great Chain ...
... Renaissance shepherd , Symonds had done the same for Orpheus , the personification of a reviving antique culture , a ... Renaissance ( Leipzig , 1927 ) , p . 140. Cf. Platonische Renaissance , pp . 66–74 ; A. O. Lovejoy , The Great Chain ...
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... Renaissance and after , then does this not explain the special acceptability of an apparently foolish fiction to serious Christian . poets like Spenser and Milton , as well as to more sceptical ones like Tasso and Shakespeare ? For it ...
... Renaissance and after , then does this not explain the special acceptability of an apparently foolish fiction to serious Christian . poets like Spenser and Milton , as well as to more sceptical ones like Tasso and Shakespeare ? For it ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION Pastoralism and Aesthetic Platonic Tradition I | 1 |
THE PASTORALISM OF TASSOS AMINTA | 21 |
The Shepherds Life | 44 |
Copyright | |
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