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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... importance of the imagination resides in its ability to leap the distance between life as we know it and a life distinct and ful- ly realized , unknown , as Sidney says , since " that first accurs- ed fall of Adam . ” ' 25 The ...
... importance of the imagination resides in its ability to leap the distance between life as we know it and a life distinct and ful- ly realized , unknown , as Sidney says , since " that first accurs- ed fall of Adam . ” ' 25 The ...
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... importance of Colin's coming home again , his reintegration into the life of the pastoral world . The tired swain we left in the Calender , his pipe aban- doned on a tree , has now resumed his responsibility as the leader of the rustic ...
... importance of Colin's coming home again , his reintegration into the life of the pastoral world . The tired swain we left in the Calender , his pipe aban- doned on a tree , has now resumed his responsibility as the leader of the rustic ...
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... important , Orpheus was also the archetypal primordial singer . The two roles must be distinguished in Milton's ... importance as a divine musician : " without the civilizing influence of the Orphean music , humanity lapses into ...
... important , Orpheus was also the archetypal primordial singer . The two roles must be distinguished in Milton's ... importance as a divine musician : " without the civilizing influence of the Orphean music , humanity lapses into ...
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