The Landscape of the Mind: Pastoralism and Platonic Theory in Tasso's Aminta and Shakespeare's Early Comedies |
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... reader alike seems always to have been more or less oracular . Already in the fourteenth century Boccaccio asks who does not see that Virgil in his Eclogues is a philosopher , and quotes the Orphic song of Silenus in support.2 And now ...
... reader alike seems always to have been more or less oracular . Already in the fourteenth century Boccaccio asks who does not see that Virgil in his Eclogues is a philosopher , and quotes the Orphic song of Silenus in support.2 And now ...
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... reader ever doubts that this is first and last an entertainment for and about initiates ? A fashion- able play now three hundred years out of date , says Granville - Barker , ' it abounds in jokes for the elect'.2 But topical allusions ...
... reader ever doubts that this is first and last an entertainment for and about initiates ? A fashion- able play now three hundred years out of date , says Granville - Barker , ' it abounds in jokes for the elect'.2 But topical allusions ...
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... reader does is explain if and why Shake- speare's elaboration on this mythology and these words satisfies him . So there are the aesthetic readers like Chambers and De la Mare , and the ethical or doctrinal ones like Paul Olson , with ...
... reader does is explain if and why Shake- speare's elaboration on this mythology and these words satisfies him . So there are the aesthetic readers like Chambers and De la Mare , and the ethical or doctrinal ones like Paul Olson , with ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION Pastoralism and Aesthetic Platonic Tradition I | 1 |
THE PASTORALISM OF TASSOS AMINTA | 21 |
The Shepherds Life | 44 |
Copyright | |
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