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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... figures are as closely related in many ways as L'Allegro and Il Penseroso . At the outset , a disclaimer is in order ... figure , whose destructive passion for the elusive Rosalind has isolated him from his peers and , even worse , by ...
... figures are as closely related in many ways as L'Allegro and Il Penseroso . At the outset , a disclaimer is in order ... figure , whose destructive passion for the elusive Rosalind has isolated him from his peers and , even worse , by ...
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... figure of the poet as a bird , capable of transcendent flight , has of course a long and complicated history from Plato onwards . " It also happens to be the figure that Bembo employs to describe neoplatonic lovers at an early stage of ...
... figure of the poet as a bird , capable of transcendent flight , has of course a long and complicated history from Plato onwards . " It also happens to be the figure that Bembo employs to describe neoplatonic lovers at an early stage of ...
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... figure of the Muse in the ode . In her well - known essay on the poem , Rosemond Tuve emphasizes that Milton's use of this traditional figure ❝is no tag of adornment , but a necessary help to say what he could of himself have no ...
... figure of the Muse in the ode . In her well - known essay on the poem , Rosemond Tuve emphasizes that Milton's use of this traditional figure ❝is no tag of adornment , but a necessary help to say what he could of himself have no ...
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