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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... dead shepherd hero ; often this bond is that of mentor to disciple . Even in the pagan orphic elegy , the poet himself assures us of the resur- rection of the dead shepherd , an assurance that invariably guarantees the elegy to be a ...
... dead shepherd hero ; often this bond is that of mentor to disciple . Even in the pagan orphic elegy , the poet himself assures us of the resur- rection of the dead shepherd , an assurance that invariably guarantees the elegy to be a ...
Page 125
... dead Bion is portrayed not in the form of an actual human being , like the mythological Adonis in the earlier poem . The hero of Moschus's elegy is mourned as a poet whose primordial rhythms seemed to animate the landscape . No display ...
... dead Bion is portrayed not in the form of an actual human being , like the mythological Adonis in the earlier poem . The hero of Moschus's elegy is mourned as a poet whose primordial rhythms seemed to animate the landscape . No display ...
Page 142
... dead ? Ah no , it is not dead , ne can it die , But liues for aie , in blisfull Paradise . [ 66-68 ] This forced attempt , however , cannot assuage her distress en- tirely . Although she claims that she must accept Astrophel's ...
... dead ? Ah no , it is not dead , ne can it die , But liues for aie , in blisfull Paradise . [ 66-68 ] This forced attempt , however , cannot assuage her distress en- tirely . Although she claims that she must accept Astrophel's ...
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