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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... Orpheus , en- chanting the animate and inanimate with his primordial rhythms . In fact , throughout the first lines of the poem , before Colin has even spoken , the myth of Orpheus emerges in its most triumphant form . By associating ...
... Orpheus , en- chanting the animate and inanimate with his primordial rhythms . In fact , throughout the first lines of the poem , before Colin has even spoken , the myth of Orpheus emerges in its most triumphant form . By associating ...
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... Orpheus assisted in the evolution of this triadic imaginative universe . In his allusions to Orpheus in the Sixth Elegy , Ad Patrem , and the Seventh Prolusion , the young poet doubtless ap- prehends a strong bond between the powers of ...
... Orpheus assisted in the evolution of this triadic imaginative universe . In his allusions to Orpheus in the Sixth Elegy , Ad Patrem , and the Seventh Prolusion , the young poet doubtless ap- prehends a strong bond between the powers of ...
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... Orpheus's power as a successful singer.40 Unlike the earlier Orpheus , who fail- ed to raise Eurydice from the dead , this Orpheus is remembered as the poet who Drew Iron tears down Pluto's cheeck , And made Hell grant what Love did ...
... Orpheus's power as a successful singer.40 Unlike the earlier Orpheus , who fail- ed to raise Eurydice from the dead , this Orpheus is remembered as the poet who Drew Iron tears down Pluto's cheeck , And made Hell grant what Love did ...
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