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... mode as Tasso's , but Plato in his prose idyll anticipates much of their common manner and matter . It is the voice of Socrates that in Italian pastoral , under the influence of Ficino , emerges as Orphic . What makes for this ...
... mode as Tasso's , but Plato in his prose idyll anticipates much of their common manner and matter . It is the voice of Socrates that in Italian pastoral , under the influence of Ficino , emerges as Orphic . What makes for this ...
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... mode in which Shakespeare writes perhaps matters little — though in the last comedies , significantly , his imagination is more obviously pastoral than ever . But in the appreciation of the Two Gentlemen especially , it makes a ...
... mode in which Shakespeare writes perhaps matters little — though in the last comedies , significantly , his imagination is more obviously pastoral than ever . But in the appreciation of the Two Gentlemen especially , it makes a ...
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... mode from the Phaedrus and Bucolics onwards . The scene in which Oberon witnesses his Diana - figure in the dark god's embrace achieves a pitch of low comedy and high mystery combined that must be as notable an instance of serio ludere ...
... mode from the Phaedrus and Bucolics onwards . The scene in which Oberon witnesses his Diana - figure in the dark god's embrace achieves a pitch of low comedy and high mystery combined that must be as notable an instance of serio ludere ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION Pastoralism and Aesthetic Platonic Tradition I | 1 |
THE PASTORALISM OF TASSOS AMINTA | 21 |
The Shepherds Life | 44 |
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