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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... earlier poem into a unified narra- tion of the affairs of Colin Clout . Seeming to spring almost on a trajectory from the Calender , the course of Colin Clout ascends relentlessly , not only in terms of situation and theme , but also by ...
... earlier poem into a unified narra- tion of the affairs of Colin Clout . Seeming to spring almost on a trajectory from the Calender , the course of Colin Clout ascends relentlessly , not only in terms of situation and theme , but also by ...
Page 70
... earlier : ... each one seeks with malice and with strife , To thrust downe other into foule disgrace , Himselfe to raise : and he doth soonest rise That best can handle his deceitfull wit . [ 690-93 ] Malicious self - seeking motivates ...
... earlier : ... each one seeks with malice and with strife , To thrust downe other into foule disgrace , Himselfe to raise : and he doth soonest rise That best can handle his deceitfull wit . [ 690-93 ] Malicious self - seeking motivates ...
Page 148
... earlier grief . The poem has fallen into two weakly related utterances ; Damon's conven- tional apotheosis is not prepared by , and not strong enough to overcome , the anguish of the rest of the poem . It may be tempting to exploit the ...
... earlier grief . The poem has fallen into two weakly related utterances ; Damon's conven- tional apotheosis is not prepared by , and not strong enough to overcome , the anguish of the rest of the poem . It may be tempting to exploit the ...
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