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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... harmony , a vi- sion of the final day when Heaven will " open wide the Gates of her high Palace Hall " ( 148 ) . And that vision , mediated by music , is drawn in terms of light.25 In fact , throughout his catalogue of the potential ...
... harmony , a vi- sion of the final day when Heaven will " open wide the Gates of her high Palace Hall " ( 148 ) . And that vision , mediated by music , is drawn in terms of light.25 In fact , throughout his catalogue of the potential ...
Page 128
... harmony . Images of the golden age are invoked to illustrate how the landscape rejoices in Daphnis's elevation , for Daphnis loves idyllic peace ( amat bonus otia Daphnis ) 61. Pastoral harmony , we are led to conclude , far from being ...
... harmony . Images of the golden age are invoked to illustrate how the landscape rejoices in Daphnis's elevation , for Daphnis loves idyllic peace ( amat bonus otia Daphnis ) 61. Pastoral harmony , we are led to conclude , far from being ...
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... harmony and contain- ment are twisted to express the horror of the speaker's most intimate and fearful imaginings . Jolted by the shock that Lycidas is " gon , and never must return " ( 38 ) the elegist no longer hears the " glad sound ...
... harmony and contain- ment are twisted to express the horror of the speaker's most intimate and fearful imaginings . Jolted by the shock that Lycidas is " gon , and never must return " ( 38 ) the elegist no longer hears the " glad sound ...
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