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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... allow — indeed , demand — that the poet enlarge the painful experience of grief under the aspect of cyclical decline and ... allows him to evoke - as all rituals do - the mythic past for the purpose of reconstructing and reordering the ...
... allow — indeed , demand — that the poet enlarge the painful experience of grief under the aspect of cyclical decline and ... allows him to evoke - as all rituals do - the mythic past for the purpose of reconstructing and reordering the ...
Page 138
... . The pastoral garb is worn lightly ; the last lines could be easily dismissed or translated into real - life terms . The transparency of the pastoral allegory allows the 138 SPENSER , MILTON , AND RENAISSANCE PASTORAL.
... . The pastoral garb is worn lightly ; the last lines could be easily dismissed or translated into real - life terms . The transparency of the pastoral allegory allows the 138 SPENSER , MILTON , AND RENAISSANCE PASTORAL.
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... allows the poet to show us how men age and decay . Because the narrative poet has access to his characters ' entire life histories , his outline of any individual's past and future provides a quite graphic demonstration of the aging ...
... allows the poet to show us how men age and decay . Because the narrative poet has access to his characters ' entire life histories , his outline of any individual's past and future provides a quite graphic demonstration of the aging ...
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