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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... fallen imagination which generates his pastorals . But the poet is tied to the sensory world of nature - whatever makes the too much loved earth more lovely - just as he is tied to his fallen imagination . The dif- ficult ascent to ...
... fallen imagination which generates his pastorals . But the poet is tied to the sensory world of nature - whatever makes the too much loved earth more lovely - just as he is tied to his fallen imagination . The dif- ficult ascent to ...
Page 78
... fallen life , so that for Milton the locus of natural corruption is detached from the poet's own status as a fallen creature . Fallen nature in Milton's early poems finds expression not in an internal , personal infirmity , but rather ...
... fallen life , so that for Milton the locus of natural corruption is detached from the poet's own status as a fallen creature . Fallen nature in Milton's early poems finds expression not in an internal , personal infirmity , but rather ...
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... fallen life . Fur- thermore , by discrediting pastoral , the emblem of fallen nature , Milton simultaneously rejects pastoral as a literary mode , to be transcended in pursuit of the " higher argument " that constitutes his lifelong ...
... fallen life . Fur- thermore , by discrediting pastoral , the emblem of fallen nature , Milton simultaneously rejects pastoral as a literary mode , to be transcended in pursuit of the " higher argument " that constitutes his lifelong ...
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