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... fable adapted to the Christian form of sacra rappresentazione . Since the founder of poetic theology is involved , it is also being given a pagan love mystery . A lover - poet suffers a pseudo - martyrdom . A courtly patron is ...
... fable adapted to the Christian form of sacra rappresentazione . Since the founder of poetic theology is involved , it is also being given a pagan love mystery . A lover - poet suffers a pseudo - martyrdom . A courtly patron is ...
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... fables speak of other things than can be said in ordinary words . Telling the fable of the shepherd's life is but the pretext for other more urgent actions , one otherworldly , the other worldly : proving the immanence of Pan in Proteus ...
... fables speak of other things than can be said in ordinary words . Telling the fable of the shepherd's life is but the pretext for other more urgent actions , one otherworldly , the other worldly : proving the immanence of Pan in Proteus ...
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... fables which Shakespeare invokes throughout ; and finally and most ' obscenely ' in the fable of Pyra- mus and Thisbe , the silliest stuff that ever Hippolyta heard ( v . i . 209 ) . He makes this connection perfectly clear at the ...
... fables which Shakespeare invokes throughout ; and finally and most ' obscenely ' in the fable of Pyra- mus and Thisbe , the silliest stuff that ever Hippolyta heard ( v . i . 209 ) . He makes this connection perfectly clear at the ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION Pastoralism and Aesthetic Platonic Tradition I | 1 |
THE PASTORALISM OF TASSOS AMINTA | 21 |
The Shepherds Life | 44 |
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