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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... poet as a medium suitable to exploring the poet's vocation . While we may legitimately see the Miltonic poet in the figure of the epic bard or even in the Attendant Spirit , neither the narrative of the epic nor the drama of the masque ...
... poet as a medium suitable to exploring the poet's vocation . While we may legitimately see the Miltonic poet in the figure of the epic bard or even in the Attendant Spirit , neither the narrative of the epic nor the drama of the masque ...
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... poet's majority . Poet and audience alike looked emulously to Virgil's pro- gress from pastoral tyro to epic bard ; the Roman's unwitting imprimatur of the mode was further encouraged by schoolboy imitation of Mantuan's dour eclogues ...
... poet's majority . Poet and audience alike looked emulously to Virgil's pro- gress from pastoral tyro to epic bard ; the Roman's unwitting imprimatur of the mode was further encouraged by schoolboy imitation of Mantuan's dour eclogues ...
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... poet's imagination . In their initial endeavors , as in their pastoral poems repeatedly , we hear what seems to be the Olympian voice of the poet himself , directing our scrutiny to his wondrous skills , asking us to contemplate with ...
... poet's imagination . In their initial endeavors , as in their pastoral poems repeatedly , we hear what seems to be the Olympian voice of the poet himself , directing our scrutiny to his wondrous skills , asking us to contemplate with ...
Contents
Acknowledgments 939 | 7 |
Spenser Milton and the Pastoral Tradition | 19 |
The Shepheardes Calender and Colin Clouts | 45 |
Copyright | |
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