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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... moral sense . The poem persuades us that the responsible poet can il- luminate in his verse the " right way " among the everyday choices that as moral beings we are bound to confront . By having Colin Clout confront and act upon such ...
... moral sense . The poem persuades us that the responsible poet can il- luminate in his verse the " right way " among the everyday choices that as moral beings we are bound to confront . By having Colin Clout confront and act upon such ...
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... moral activities , that is , as guides to humane and social life . To invoke terms such as " moral ” and “ humane " in speak- ing of book 6 can be misleading , however , if one means only that Spenser's aim is to fashion a gentleman in ...
... moral activities , that is , as guides to humane and social life . To invoke terms such as " moral ” and “ humane " in speak- ing of book 6 can be misleading , however , if one means only that Spenser's aim is to fashion a gentleman in ...
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... moral elucidation . Their solutions , though by no means simple , fairly consistently hinge on belief in the poet as a light - bringer to men . Sidney's argument , to choose a familiar exemplar , goes like this : the poet's inven- tion ...
... moral elucidation . Their solutions , though by no means simple , fairly consistently hinge on belief in the poet as a light - bringer to men . Sidney's argument , to choose a familiar exemplar , goes like this : the poet's inven- tion ...
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