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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... poem . The distance between the " casual and confused region of everyday existence " and the transformed locality of the poem encourages — as the Eclogues powerfully attest - the separation of the historical poet and the poet- swain ...
... poem . The distance between the " casual and confused region of everyday existence " and the transformed locality of the poem encourages — as the Eclogues powerfully attest - the separation of the historical poet and the poet- swain ...
Page 63
... poem centers fully on Colin's career as a poet - lover , Spenser eliminates many of the concerns of the Calender , most noticeably ( and for most readers , most happily ) the satire against ecclesiastical abuse . He frees himself from ...
... poem centers fully on Colin's career as a poet - lover , Spenser eliminates many of the concerns of the Calender , most noticeably ( and for most readers , most happily ) the satire against ecclesiastical abuse . He frees himself from ...
Page 144
... poem , it seems to me , neither con- vinces nor does justice to the poem as a whole . It is , never- theless , a skillful maneuver that almost succeeds . The measure of its success lies in the poem's almost convincing shift from an ...
... poem , it seems to me , neither con- vinces nor does justice to the poem as a whole . It is , never- theless , a skillful maneuver that almost succeeds . The measure of its success lies in the poem's almost convincing shift from an ...
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