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... suggests , it is a sense of loss , of something missing from the courtly life that Shakespeare communicates . What is lacking in these forsworn pretenders to the golden apples of virtue and the harmony of Apollo's lute is a self ...
... suggests , it is a sense of loss , of something missing from the courtly life that Shakespeare communicates . What is lacking in these forsworn pretenders to the golden apples of virtue and the harmony of Apollo's lute is a self ...
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... suggest in the omni - allusive manner of mythology both the discord and the concord which the fairy plot enacts ... suggests , by her name , the chastity of the play's other presiding goddess , as in the Metamorphoses ( iii . 173 ) ...
... suggest in the omni - allusive manner of mythology both the discord and the concord which the fairy plot enacts ... suggests , by her name , the chastity of the play's other presiding goddess , as in the Metamorphoses ( iii . 173 ) ...
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... suggests that to follow Orpheus is to fail to follow the ' true Orpheus ' , Jesus Christ . But is Chaucer's mythological language as discriminate as this ? And does he not know as well as Poliziano or Shakespeare that blind love may be ...
... suggests that to follow Orpheus is to fail to follow the ' true Orpheus ' , Jesus Christ . But is Chaucer's mythological language as discriminate as this ? And does he not know as well as Poliziano or Shakespeare that blind love may be ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION Pastoralism and Aesthetic Platonic Tradition I | 1 |
THE PASTORALISM OF TASSOS AMINTA | 21 |
The Shepherds Life | 44 |
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