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... Theocritus ; and some scholars tell us that it has its origin in the actual shepherd contests of rural Sicily . Whether that is true or not , its place in Renaissance pastoral is surely the opposite - not as a sign of realism , but as a ...
... Theocritus ; and some scholars tell us that it has its origin in the actual shepherd contests of rural Sicily . Whether that is true or not , its place in Renaissance pastoral is surely the opposite - not as a sign of realism , but as a ...
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... Theocritus and Virgil . Surprisingly , he does not notice the Golden Age in the fourth Eclogue in which , he tells us , ' all the images are either taken from the country or from the religion of the age common to all parts of the Empire ...
... Theocritus and Virgil . Surprisingly , he does not notice the Golden Age in the fourth Eclogue in which , he tells us , ' all the images are either taken from the country or from the religion of the age common to all parts of the Empire ...
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... Theocritus and Virgil but of Sannazaro , Tasso and Marot . The second ( more important for us ) is that we should wonder why a court poet would want to write about the country ; and if I am right in suggesting that his interest is ...
... Theocritus and Virgil but of Sannazaro , Tasso and Marot . The second ( more important for us ) is that we should wonder why a court poet would want to write about the country ; and if I am right in suggesting that his interest is ...
Contents
What Pastoral Is | 11 |
On Nostalgia | 41 |
Arcadia and Utopia | 63 |
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