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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Page 27
... hero . Colin Clout may be the hero of " Januarye , " but the nar- rative poet of the framework wins our confidence and serves as our mediator . In his perceptive reading of the eclogue Hallett Smith has pointed out how Spenser achieves ...
... hero . Colin Clout may be the hero of " Januarye , " but the nar- rative poet of the framework wins our confidence and serves as our mediator . In his perceptive reading of the eclogue Hallett Smith has pointed out how Spenser achieves ...
Page 122
... hero is not remembered primarily as a poet , serving as an in- spiration to , or predecessor of , the elegist , but as a personal friend for whose loss there can be granted little consolation . The dead shepherd may have been a poet ...
... hero is not remembered primarily as a poet , serving as an in- spiration to , or predecessor of , the elegist , but as a personal friend for whose loss there can be granted little consolation . The dead shepherd may have been a poet ...
Page 161
... a tidy conclusion to the human drama . And yet heroes and poets must and will continue to quest . Spenser's conclusion , if we can call the end of this book a conclusion , Poet and Hero in Book 6 of The Faerie Queene 161.
... a tidy conclusion to the human drama . And yet heroes and poets must and will continue to quest . Spenser's conclusion , if we can call the end of this book a conclusion , Poet and Hero in Book 6 of The Faerie Queene 161.
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