Spenser, Milton, and Renaissance PastoralExamination of Spenser's and Milton's use of the pastoral as a vehicle for the imagination's dramatization of itself. |
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... Colin Clout as a direct postscript or response to the poem that launched his poetic carer . Nor do I suggest that he wrote either poem as an anachronistic " Growth of a Poet's Mind . " But his choice of Colin as the principal character ...
... Colin Clout as a direct postscript or response to the poem that launched his poetic carer . Nor do I suggest that he wrote either poem as an anachronistic " Growth of a Poet's Mind . " But his choice of Colin as the principal character ...
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... Colin Clout - is intimately related to his failure as a poet . As Piers reminds us in " Oct- ober , " Colin's inability to " bridle " his lover's passions thwarts his promise as a poet . In ways that I shall presently elaborate , Colin's ...
... Colin Clout - is intimately related to his failure as a poet . As Piers reminds us in " Oct- ober , " Colin's inability to " bridle " his lover's passions thwarts his promise as a poet . In ways that I shall presently elaborate , Colin's ...
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... Colin Clout recounts the process of his arrival at the point where he can accept and make sense of the pain of being ... Colin assumes in the poem . His various personae as shepherd , lover , aspiring courtier , moral philosopher , and ...
... Colin Clout recounts the process of his arrival at the point where he can accept and make sense of the pain of being ... Colin assumes in the poem . His various personae as shepherd , lover , aspiring courtier , moral philosopher , and ...
Contents
Acknowledgments 939 | 7 |
Spenser Milton and the Pastoral Tradition | 19 |
The Shepheardes Calender and Colin Clouts | 45 |
Copyright | |
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achieve Acidale adonean elegy Adonis Astrophel beauty Bion Calidore Calidore's Colin Clout conclusion conventions courtesy courtly critical Daphnis Daphnis's dead death Dido divine earlier Eclogue Edmund Spenser elegist Eliza emblem embody emotional epic Epitaphium example Faerie Queene fallen final flower Gallus Genius genre Graces grief harmony Harvard University Press heaven heavenly hero human hymn Il Penseroso imagination Januarye John Milton L'Allegro lament landscape light literary London loue lover Lycidas Lycidas's means metaphor Milton's pastorals mode Mopsus moral Muse narrative nature neoplatonic Orpheus orphic orphic elegy pagan Paradise pastoral elegy pastoral poems pastoral world Pastorella pathetic fallacy pattern Penseroso pensive perspective PMLA poem's poet poet's poetry praise present Princeton proem provides reader Renaissance ritual role Rosalind sense Shepheardes Calender shepherd sing song speaker Spenser and Milton Spenserian spirit stanza suggests Theocritus Thyrsis's tion tradition verse Virgil's virtue vision voice youth