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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... lines of the poem , before Colin has even spoken , the myth of Orpheus emerges in its most triumphant form . By associating Colin with Or- pheus's religious powers , Spenser wastes no time in precondi- tioning our reception of his hero ...
... lines of the poem , before Colin has even spoken , the myth of Orpheus emerges in its most triumphant form . By associating Colin with Or- pheus's religious powers , Spenser wastes no time in precondi- tioning our reception of his hero ...
Page 91
... line of poet - prophets ; but instead of Virgil's Orpheus and Linus , the singer of the ode remembers that the " holy ... lines of the proem cap- ture his dual attitude by means of a discreet , syntactic am- biguity : And joyn thy voice ...
... line of poet - prophets ; but instead of Virgil's Orpheus and Linus , the singer of the ode remembers that the " holy ... lines of the proem cap- ture his dual attitude by means of a discreet , syntactic am- biguity : And joyn thy voice ...
Page 102
... lines help to define the relationship of the cheerful man to the pensive man , and in so doing , become the keystones in two carefully conceived and constructed imaginative arches . In L'Allegro the central lines ( 69-99 ) find the ...
... lines help to define the relationship of the cheerful man to the pensive man , and in so doing , become the keystones in two carefully conceived and constructed imaginative arches . In L'Allegro the central lines ( 69-99 ) find the ...
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