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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Page 148
... Lycidas's role as the Genius of the shore , because no effort comparable to Thyrsis's has been made in that poem to heighten the personal bereavement of the speaker . To transform Damon into a patron saint , though , is to sacrifice the ...
... Lycidas's role as the Genius of the shore , because no effort comparable to Thyrsis's has been made in that poem to heighten the personal bereavement of the speaker . To transform Damon into a patron saint , though , is to sacrifice the ...
Page 156
... Lycidas's apotheosis , echoing so strongly the Book of Revelation and the commonplaces of pastoral , does of course fulfill the elegist's repeated exertions to comprehend Lycidas's death . The swain's earthly song now submits to the ...
... Lycidas's apotheosis , echoing so strongly the Book of Revelation and the commonplaces of pastoral , does of course fulfill the elegist's repeated exertions to comprehend Lycidas's death . The swain's earthly song now submits to the ...
Page 214
... Lycidas , " in Milton's " Lycidas " : The Tradition and the Poem , ed . C. A. Patrides ( New York : Holt , Rinehart , 1961 ) , p . 213 . 35. See especially Wayne Shumaker , " Flowerets and Sounding Seas : A Study in the Affective ...
... Lycidas , " in Milton's " Lycidas " : The Tradition and the Poem , ed . C. A. Patrides ( New York : Holt , Rinehart , 1961 ) , p . 213 . 35. See especially Wayne Shumaker , " Flowerets and Sounding Seas : A Study in the Affective ...
Contents
Acknowledgments 939 | 7 |
Spenser Milton and the Pastoral Tradition | 19 |
The Shepheardes Calender and Colin Clouts | 45 |
Copyright | |
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