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... audience for poetry from Boccaccio's time to Milton's . It sees the poetic fiction in the customary humanist light as fundamentally allegorical : truth concealed by a known and fitting veil of mythology . ' And it sees pastoralism as ...
... audience for poetry from Boccaccio's time to Milton's . It sees the poetic fiction in the customary humanist light as fundamentally allegorical : truth concealed by a known and fitting veil of mythology . ' And it sees pastoralism as ...
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... audience's attention to itself as an audience , and so returns it laughingly upon its own reality , of which the festa has been , as Johnson would say , only a reminder . It is thus the ' magic potency of the theater ' that Poliziano ...
... audience's attention to itself as an audience , and so returns it laughingly upon its own reality , of which the festa has been , as Johnson would say , only a reminder . It is thus the ' magic potency of the theater ' that Poliziano ...
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... audience at the right moment that they are in a theatre but that all the world's a stage ; that the theatre can give only an illusion of resolving the complications of courtly life but that the illusion is a saving one . Art must always ...
... audience at the right moment that they are in a theatre but that all the world's a stage ; that the theatre can give only an illusion of resolving the complications of courtly life but that the illusion is a saving one . Art must always ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION Pastoralism and Aesthetic Platonic Tradition I | 1 |
THE PASTORALISM OF TASSOS AMINTA | 21 |
The Shepherds Life | 44 |
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