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Page 49
... classical ec- logue in what may be called the medieval spirit , the Renaissance had seized upon the pastoral for purposes of its own . Elabo- rating the original pastoral motive of simplicity into the fully developed conception of the ...
... classical ec- logue in what may be called the medieval spirit , the Renaissance had seized upon the pastoral for purposes of its own . Elabo- rating the original pastoral motive of simplicity into the fully developed conception of the ...
Page 101
... classical and the Celtic ; and to clinch this paragraph he returns to a classical image , picturing the frightful death of Orpheus , himself the son of Calliope , one of the Muses , and the very embodiment of poetic genius . Orpheus ...
... classical and the Celtic ; and to clinch this paragraph he returns to a classical image , picturing the frightful death of Orpheus , himself the son of Calliope , one of the Muses , and the very embodiment of poetic genius . Orpheus ...
Page 105
... classical tradition the shepherd also sings and pipes . So by com- bining Christian and classical pastoral traditions Milton can use the shepherd as a symbol for the combination of priest and poet which was such an important concept to ...
... classical tradition the shepherd also sings and pipes . So by com- bining Christian and classical pastoral traditions Milton can use the shepherd as a symbol for the combination of priest and poet which was such an important concept to ...
Contents
Epitaphium Damonis | 14 |
On the Tradition | 31 |
On the Poem | 60 |
Copyright | |
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allusion answer appears associated beauty become beginning bring called Christian classical close conventional course critical dead death eclogue effect English essay experience expression fact fame feeling figure final flower follows force give heaven human idea imagery images important interpretation Italian John kind King lament language later leaves less lines literary look Lost Lycidas meaning metaphor Milton mind mourn move movement Muse nature never once opening Orpheus Paradise passage pastoral elegy pattern perhaps Peter poem poet poetic poetry possible present question reader reference relation rhyme seems sense setting shepherd sing song sound speak speaker speech stream structure Studies suggest swain symbol tear theme Theocritus things thought tion tradition true truth turn University verse Virgil vision voice whole writing