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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Richard Mallette. which the poet's art bears . The poet of the " Nativity ” ode , without finally allowing us to neglect the magnitude of his poetic feat , envisions on behalf of all humanity the day when " at last our bliss / Full and ...
Richard Mallette. which the poet's art bears . The poet of the " Nativity ” ode , without finally allowing us to neglect the magnitude of his poetic feat , envisions on behalf of all humanity the day when " at last our bliss / Full and ...
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... poet rising above his everyday circumstances . " Lyft vp thy selfe out of the lowly dust " ( 37 ) , he admonishes ... poet's vocation , though these are not so noticeable as his rhapsodies on poetic freedom and flight . O what an honor ...
... poet rising above his everyday circumstances . " Lyft vp thy selfe out of the lowly dust " ( 37 ) , he admonishes ... poet's vocation , though these are not so noticeable as his rhapsodies on poetic freedom and flight . O what an honor ...
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