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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... final abandonment of his pipe signals his final discouragement with the power of his song to melt Rosalind's icy heart . As he bids the world adieu , he clings to the belief that he has failed as a poet because he has failed as a lover ...
... final abandonment of his pipe signals his final discouragement with the power of his song to melt Rosalind's icy heart . As he bids the world adieu , he clings to the belief that he has failed as a poet because he has failed as a lover ...
Page 90
... final prophecy of what his own achievements will encompass , if he could be allowed to chronicle the events of the impending golden age : non me carminibus vincat nec Thracius Orpheus , nec Linus , mater quamvis atque huic pater adsit ...
... final prophecy of what his own achievements will encompass , if he could be allowed to chronicle the events of the impending golden age : non me carminibus vincat nec Thracius Orpheus , nec Linus , mater quamvis atque huic pater adsit ...
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... final section of the poem ( 121-74 ) , considerably longer than the corresponding section in its companion . In L'Allegro the final lines were concerned with the effect of " soft Lydian airs ” ( 136 ) on the poetic sen- sibility . In ...
... final section of the poem ( 121-74 ) , considerably longer than the corresponding section in its companion . In L'Allegro the final lines were concerned with the effect of " soft Lydian airs ” ( 136 ) on the poetic sen- sibility . In ...
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