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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... fact il- lumine the total work of each poet . Accordingly , this study progresses from cardinal similarities between the poets to- ward their divergences . Such a sequence will establish , I trust , a firmer definition of each poet's ...
... fact il- lumine the total work of each poet . Accordingly , this study progresses from cardinal similarities between the poets to- ward their divergences . Such a sequence will establish , I trust , a firmer definition of each poet's ...
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... fact , is ac- centuated by his very ties to the ever - regenerating landscape . These depressing facts of life , however , are offset in the Calender by a strong sense of the human capacity to trans- cend mortality . Most readers have ...
... fact , is ac- centuated by his very ties to the ever - regenerating landscape . These depressing facts of life , however , are offset in the Calender by a strong sense of the human capacity to trans- cend mortality . Most readers have ...
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... fact , Shakespeare's romances by a quite different route head toward the same goal : a perspective on life that in some sense heals the wound of human aging and mortality . The pastoral themes that invite a comparison between book 6 and ...
... fact , Shakespeare's romances by a quite different route head toward the same goal : a perspective on life that in some sense heals the wound of human aging and mortality . The pastoral themes that invite a comparison between book 6 and ...
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