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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... imagination which generates his pastorals . But the poet is tied to the sensory world of nature - whatever makes the too much loved earth more lovely - just as he is tied to his fallen imagination . The dif- ficult ascent to perfection ...
... imagination which generates his pastorals . But the poet is tied to the sensory world of nature - whatever makes the too much loved earth more lovely - just as he is tied to his fallen imagination . The dif- ficult ascent to perfection ...
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... imagination will guide him up the scala to share his vision with his fellowmen . Spenser's insistence on the centrality of " poetry , " on its power as a medium toward truth , is animated by the very variety of roles that Colin assumes ...
... imagination will guide him up the scala to share his vision with his fellowmen . Spenser's insistence on the centrality of " poetry , " on its power as a medium toward truth , is animated by the very variety of roles that Colin assumes ...
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... imagination . Between the realms of heaven and fallen nature stands the inspired poet , his robes and garlands flowing about him , in an imaginative realm distinct unto itself , but with allegiances to both the world of created nature ...
... imagination . Between the realms of heaven and fallen nature stands the inspired poet , his robes and garlands flowing about him , in an imaginative realm distinct unto itself , but with allegiances to both the world of created nature ...
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