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... unity of all the parts in ' endless dance and melody divine ' , over it must be at least as a mystery rite.2 As a fable the play is not over at all . Silvia has returned alive from her misadventure , only to hear that Aminta has thrown ...
... unity of all the parts in ' endless dance and melody divine ' , over it must be at least as a mystery rite.2 As a fable the play is not over at all . Silvia has returned alive from her misadventure , only to hear that Aminta has thrown ...
Page 77
... unity , then duality may also be expected to emerge ; as two comes between three and one . Body and soul , beauty and time , life and death , purity and pleasure , love and poetry , nature and art — the dualities of his meaning ...
... unity , then duality may also be expected to emerge ; as two comes between three and one . Body and soul , beauty and time , life and death , purity and pleasure , love and poetry , nature and art — the dualities of his meaning ...
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... unity of the play is not so much the unity of a drama as that of a series of pictorial groups , in which the same figures reappear , in different combinations but on the same background . It is as if Shakespeare had intended to bind ...
... unity of the play is not so much the unity of a drama as that of a series of pictorial groups , in which the same figures reappear , in different combinations but on the same background . It is as if Shakespeare had intended to bind ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION Pastoralism and Aesthetic Platonic Tradition I | 1 |
THE PASTORALISM OF TASSOS AMINTA | 21 |
The Shepherds Life | 44 |
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