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... Venus mentioned in the Ars Amatoria ( 1. 232 ) and elsewhere.1 To an audience familiar with Ovidian mythology and how the Platonists read it , the esoteric sense of the fairy plot is quite as overt as its absurdity.2 Much as the first ...
... Venus mentioned in the Ars Amatoria ( 1. 232 ) and elsewhere.1 To an audience familiar with Ovidian mythology and how the Platonists read it , the esoteric sense of the fairy plot is quite as overt as its absurdity.2 Much as the first ...
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... Venus , one may now say , is in the manner of Tasso in his intermedi . First he poses a Protean discord in which Diana prevails . Then he transposes it , by way of Apollo - Bacchus , to a Panic concord in which Venus prevails . From ...
... Venus , one may now say , is in the manner of Tasso in his intermedi . First he poses a Protean discord in which Diana prevails . Then he transposes it , by way of Apollo - Bacchus , to a Panic concord in which Venus prevails . From ...
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... Venus . Perhaps the soundest epitome of Shakespeare's pastoral eso- tericism in this play is , after all , the epilogue — which in an ortho- dox love rite would be spoken , not by Puck , but by Titania as Venus noctiluca , Puck having ...
... Venus . Perhaps the soundest epitome of Shakespeare's pastoral eso- tericism in this play is , after all , the epilogue — which in an ortho- dox love rite would be spoken , not by Puck , but by Titania as Venus noctiluca , Puck having ...
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INTRODUCTION Pastoralism and Aesthetic Platonic Tradition I | 1 |
THE PASTORALISM OF TASSOS AMINTA | 21 |
The Shepherds Life | 44 |
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