The Landscape of the Mind: Pastoralism and Platonic Theory in Tasso's Aminta and Shakespeare's Early Comedies |
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... tradition , Platonism always seeks to comprehend in a single formula the dualism of a ' delight in the sensible universe ' and a ' beatific vision of divine perfection ' . These phrases are from Lovejoy's Great Chain of Being , but ...
... tradition , Platonism always seeks to comprehend in a single formula the dualism of a ' delight in the sensible universe ' and a ' beatific vision of divine perfection ' . These phrases are from Lovejoy's Great Chain of Being , but ...
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... tradition is not a combina- tion of formality and passion , as in the Aminta , but a rich and unique variation on the Platonic sense of humour . A certain humour has always informed pastoral language , a spirit not of laughter but of ...
... tradition is not a combina- tion of formality and passion , as in the Aminta , but a rich and unique variation on the Platonic sense of humour . A certain humour has always informed pastoral language , a spirit not of laughter but of ...
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... tradition in England seem to exist . I do not mean surveys or monographs on what the Elizabethans knew about Platonism and mythology - these have been undertaken - but critical studies . of the bearing of this knowledge on their poetic ...
... tradition in England seem to exist . I do not mean surveys or monographs on what the Elizabethans knew about Platonism and mythology - these have been undertaken - but critical studies . of the bearing of this knowledge on their poetic ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION Pastoralism and Aesthetic Platonic Tradition I | 1 |
THE PASTORALISM OF TASSOS AMINTA | 21 |
The Shepherds Life | 44 |
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