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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... literary retrospection . In fact , we readily associate Spenser and Milton partly because they pursued careers as richly diverse as their literary inheritance , making our image of each poet inseparable from his revered literary models ...
... literary retrospection . In fact , we readily associate Spenser and Milton partly because they pursued careers as richly diverse as their literary inheritance , making our image of each poet inseparable from his revered literary models ...
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... literary endeavor if we grant to the genre more than its due . " Whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted , " complains Dr. Johnson in one of his fiercer ex- ecrations of pastoral , and the modern reader of England's Helicon ...
... literary endeavor if we grant to the genre more than its due . " Whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted , " complains Dr. Johnson in one of his fiercer ex- ecrations of pastoral , and the modern reader of England's Helicon ...
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... literary forebears , for the roots of his art , cannot be dissociated from the general human longing for a mythic antiquity of harmony and pleasance . After all , Milton realizes Eden by means of specific literary echoes as evocative as ...
... literary forebears , for the roots of his art , cannot be dissociated from the general human longing for a mythic antiquity of harmony and pleasance . After all , Milton realizes Eden by means of specific literary echoes as evocative as ...
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