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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... human life . Every crucial periodicity of experience : dawn , sunset , the phases of the moon , seed - time and ... human experience allows him to evoke - as all rituals do - the mythic past for the purpose of reconstructing and ...
... human life . Every crucial periodicity of experience : dawn , sunset , the phases of the moon , seed - time and ... human experience allows him to evoke - as all rituals do - the mythic past for the purpose of reconstructing and ...
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... humanity . As in the proem , the poet again claims that virtue has been planted seedlike and mysteriously within man's soul . The cultivation of that buried seed constitutes every man's duty as a civilized creature . The human capacity ...
... humanity . As in the proem , the poet again claims that virtue has been planted seedlike and mysteriously within man's soul . The cultivation of that buried seed constitutes every man's duty as a civilized creature . The human capacity ...
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... human behavior . A spatial composition , one of many employed quietly to do the work of the imagination , places virtue ( and baseness ) behind or within the outer " deedes " and manners of human intercourse . The poet's vision , it ...
... human behavior . A spatial composition , one of many employed quietly to do the work of the imagination , places virtue ( and baseness ) behind or within the outer " deedes " and manners of human intercourse . The poet's vision , it ...
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