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... matter . It is the voice of Socrates that in Italian pastoral , under the influence of Ficino , emerges as Orphic . What makes for this affiliation is the persistence from Plato's time through Ficino's of an aesthetic theory of the ...
... matter . It is the voice of Socrates that in Italian pastoral , under the influence of Ficino , emerges as Orphic . What makes for this affiliation is the persistence from Plato's time through Ficino's of an aesthetic theory of the ...
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... matter of poetics as well as doctrine , an Orpheus poem should be hermetic . And with the hermetic , as with the Socratic , what begins as verbal play is ex- pected to persist as myth and dream . With the scene of his playing the lyre ...
... matter of poetics as well as doctrine , an Orpheus poem should be hermetic . And with the hermetic , as with the Socratic , what begins as verbal play is ex- pected to persist as myth and dream . With the scene of his playing the lyre ...
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... matters . It is even possible that he was writing slavishly in a fashionable mode , un- aware of the conventions he appears to invoke ; though it is more likely that , moving in the Southampton circle soon after the impact of the Eroici ...
... matters . It is even possible that he was writing slavishly in a fashionable mode , un- aware of the conventions he appears to invoke ; though it is more likely that , moving in the Southampton circle soon after the impact of the Eroici ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION Pastoralism and Aesthetic Platonic Tradition I | 1 |
THE PASTORALISM OF TASSOS AMINTA | 21 |
The Shepherds Life | 44 |
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