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... never quite dies . A concern with withdrawal into the self , self - examination , and a discovery of beauty by the same creative process as the poet's remains the mark of aesthetic Platonism through Plotinus and Cusanus to Ficino and ...
... never quite dies . A concern with withdrawal into the self , self - examination , and a discovery of beauty by the same creative process as the poet's remains the mark of aesthetic Platonism through Plotinus and Cusanus to Ficino and ...
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... never tired of playing , usually around the middle of Act III . By gathering up an audience at the moment of crisis into the artifice of the play and at the same time admitting the illusion , they can be brought to glimpse a reality ...
... never tired of playing , usually around the middle of Act III . By gathering up an audience at the moment of crisis into the artifice of the play and at the same time admitting the illusion , they can be brought to glimpse a reality ...
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... Never durst poet touch a pen to write , Until his ink were temp'red with Love's sighs ; O , then his lines would ravish savage ears , And plant in tyrants mild humility . From women's eyes this doctrine I derive : They sparkle still the ...
... Never durst poet touch a pen to write , Until his ink were temp'red with Love's sighs ; O , then his lines would ravish savage ears , And plant in tyrants mild humility . From women's eyes this doctrine I derive : They sparkle still the ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION Pastoralism and Aesthetic Platonic Tradition I | 1 |
THE PASTORALISM OF TASSOS AMINTA | 21 |
The Shepherds Life | 44 |
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