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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... flower catalogue and then of the sounding seas perfectly captures the pitch and toss of the speaker's imagination be- tween orphic detachment and adonean horror . The flower passage allows the elegist to exercise with unmatchable vir ...
... flower catalogue and then of the sounding seas perfectly captures the pitch and toss of the speaker's imagination be- tween orphic detachment and adonean horror . The flower passage allows the elegist to exercise with unmatchable vir ...
Page 170
... flowers , the impact of human decay falls hard . As death advances relentlessly , flowers lose their bloom . The pastoral framework that readily suggests the force of the flower as an emblem of life's transitory aspect also sug- gests the ...
... flowers , the impact of human decay falls hard . As death advances relentlessly , flowers lose their bloom . The pastoral framework that readily suggests the force of the flower as an emblem of life's transitory aspect also sug- gests the ...
Page 171
... flower of book 6 is the " bloosme of comely courtesie " ( Proem , 5 ) that spreads itself through all civility . Spenser unifies the Legend of Courtesy by investing the flower with multiple meanings that spread themselves , it could be ...
... flower of book 6 is the " bloosme of comely courtesie " ( Proem , 5 ) that spreads itself through all civility . Spenser unifies the Legend of Courtesy by investing the flower with multiple meanings that spread themselves , it could be ...
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