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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... early work virtually defies verification , although we often cannot fail to overhear a Spenserian echo when Milton employs diction which by the middle of the seventeenth cen- tury had become old - fashioned , quaint , and associated ...
... early work virtually defies verification , although we often cannot fail to overhear a Spenserian echo when Milton employs diction which by the middle of the seventeenth cen- tury had become old - fashioned , quaint , and associated ...
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... early Milton or to identify scattered uses of language that suggest a Spenserian " borrowing " than to approach Milton's first volume from the perspective on the poetic vocation that illuminates Spenser's pastorals . For there is no ...
... early Milton or to identify scattered uses of language that suggest a Spenserian " borrowing " than to approach Milton's first volume from the perspective on the poetic vocation that illuminates Spenser's pastorals . For there is no ...
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... early poems , to take note of the obvious : namely , that Milton never goes so far as to abhor or even to disesteem either pastoral poetry or the beauties of nature that pastoral exploits . After all , few readers of Milton can envisage ...
... early poems , to take note of the obvious : namely , that Milton never goes so far as to abhor or even to disesteem either pastoral poetry or the beauties of nature that pastoral exploits . After all , few readers of Milton can envisage ...
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