The Landscape of the Mind: Pastoralism and Platonic Theory in Tasso's Aminta and Shakespeare's Early Comedies |
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... language to become a beatific vision of divine perfection . Tasso's concern as a mythologer is thus ex- plicitly ... language of allusion in which the pastoral mysteries are expressed . In his Platonism and his use of the poetic theology ...
... language to become a beatific vision of divine perfection . Tasso's concern as a mythologer is thus ex- plicitly ... language of allusion in which the pastoral mysteries are expressed . In his Platonism and his use of the poetic theology ...
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... language in the assumed way , a rival poet such as Ralegh can expose the peril of its balance between the purest poetry and the merest doctrine . Witness the Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd . ( iii ) Wit and Mythopoeia Ralegh and Donne in ...
... language in the assumed way , a rival poet such as Ralegh can expose the peril of its balance between the purest poetry and the merest doctrine . Witness the Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd . ( iii ) Wit and Mythopoeia Ralegh and Donne in ...
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... language of myth works harder for clarity than the newer language of words as word , not for contradiction but modality . Empson finds three unresolved meanings in the third line of Yeats's final stanza : Fergus is still an heroic king ...
... language of myth works harder for clarity than the newer language of words as word , not for contradiction but modality . Empson finds three unresolved meanings in the third line of Yeats's final stanza : Fergus is still an heroic king ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION Pastoralism and Aesthetic Platonic Tradition I | 1 |
THE PASTORALISM OF TASSOS AMINTA | 21 |
The Shepherds Life | 44 |
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