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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... lead the shepherds in their quest . Many of Milton's commentators have documented his lifelong fascination with Platonic - Pythagorean theories of the music of the spheres , and , as everyone knows , music in its varying forms ...
... lead the shepherds in their quest . Many of Milton's commentators have documented his lifelong fascination with Platonic - Pythagorean theories of the music of the spheres , and , as everyone knows , music in its varying forms ...
Page 98
... leads to a higher vision of " light , " so too the poet's song " tedious " because inferior to the ravishing heavenly song - leads to the vision ( " But see " ) in the final stanza . Both heaven and Bethlehem are now robed in light ...
... leads to a higher vision of " light , " so too the poet's song " tedious " because inferior to the ravishing heavenly song - leads to the vision ( " But see " ) in the final stanza . Both heaven and Bethlehem are now robed in light ...
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... lead his followers away from the wood he sanctifies to another locale . His skill , we may say , works almost in ... leads [ him ] on " ( 76 ) . As he approches the goddess bright , the Genius leaves behind the pastoral landscape he has ...
... lead his followers away from the wood he sanctifies to another locale . His skill , we may say , works almost in ... leads [ him ] on " ( 76 ) . As he approches the goddess bright , the Genius leaves behind the pastoral landscape he has ...
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