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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... Penseroso ) . One of her attendants hears the Muses in a ring , Aye round about Joves Altar sing , [ 47-48 ] reminding us by means of the dual images of song and circle ( " ring . . . ... sing " ) of poetry's close association with the ...
... Penseroso ) . One of her attendants hears the Muses in a ring , Aye round about Joves Altar sing , [ 47-48 ] reminding us by means of the dual images of song and circle ( " ring . . . ... sing " ) of poetry's close association with the ...
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... Penseroso lays bare the very secrets of the universe : ยท I may oft outwatch the Bear , With thrice great Hermes , or unsphear The spirit of Plato to unfold What Worlds , or what vast Regions hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her ...
... Penseroso lays bare the very secrets of the universe : ยท I may oft outwatch the Bear , With thrice great Hermes , or unsphear The spirit of Plato to unfold What Worlds , or what vast Regions hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her ...
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... Penseroso is softened and enhanced by the protective harmony of the elements acting in concert to lull the retired man to rest . When experienced by the con- templative mind , pastoral carries with it the Virgilian associa- tions of ...
... Penseroso is softened and enhanced by the protective harmony of the elements acting in concert to lull the retired man to rest . When experienced by the con- templative mind , pastoral carries with it the Virgilian associa- tions of ...
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