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... erotic dualism of ' this - worldliness ' and ' otherworldliness ' ? 1 Long before Hallett Smith put Paris forward as the type of the Renaissance shepherd , Symonds had done the same for Orpheus , the personification of a reviving ...
... erotic dualism of ' this - worldliness ' and ' otherworldliness ' ? 1 Long before Hallett Smith put Paris forward as the type of the Renaissance shepherd , Symonds had done the same for Orpheus , the personification of a reviving ...
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... erotic , can satisfy the universalizing function of pastoral compliment and pastoral aesthetics . Is good old Platonic syncretism breaking down , as Holofernes seems to think ? Old Mantuan ! old Mantuan ! Who understandeth thee not ...
... erotic , can satisfy the universalizing function of pastoral compliment and pastoral aesthetics . Is good old Platonic syncretism breaking down , as Holofernes seems to think ? Old Mantuan ! old Mantuan ! Who understandeth thee not ...
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... erotic passion into a just enthusiasm for all things beautiful and perfect . This is the secret of Platonism , which makes it perennial , so that if it were ever lost as a tradition it would presently be revived as an inspiration . It ...
... erotic passion into a just enthusiasm for all things beautiful and perfect . This is the secret of Platonism , which makes it perennial , so that if it were ever lost as a tradition it would presently be revived as an inspiration . It ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION Pastoralism and Aesthetic Platonic Tradition I | 1 |
THE PASTORALISM OF TASSOS AMINTA | 21 |
The Shepherds Life | 44 |
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