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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... narrative shifts to the green world in the climactic pastoral cantos . In this environment courtesy and virtue exist , at least briefly , uncontaminated by civilized life . So , in fact , does poetry . Colin Clout's poetic evocation of ...
... narrative shifts to the green world in the climactic pastoral cantos . In this environment courtesy and virtue exist , at least briefly , uncontaminated by civilized life . So , in fact , does poetry . Colin Clout's poetic evocation of ...
Page 138
... narrative for the kind of consolation that is issued in the Lay . Nor does the elevated and formal quality of the invocation correspond to the rustic tone of the narrative action . Both addenda reveal an uncertainty on the author's part ...
... narrative for the kind of consolation that is issued in the Lay . Nor does the elevated and formal quality of the invocation correspond to the rustic tone of the narrative action . Both addenda reveal an uncertainty on the author's part ...
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... narrative form of The Faerie Queene allows the poet to show us how men age and decay . Because the narrative poet has access to his characters ' entire life histories , his outline of any individual's past and future provides a quite ...
... narrative form of The Faerie Queene allows the poet to show us how men age and decay . Because the narrative poet has access to his characters ' entire life histories , his outline of any individual's past and future provides a quite ...
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