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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... proem with an allusion that directs our attention back to his own divinely inspired powers . The proem establishes , then , the significance of the poet's " liturgical act of praise . " In doing so , it also develops in its imagery the ...
... proem with an allusion that directs our attention back to his own divinely inspired powers . The proem establishes , then , the significance of the poet's " liturgical act of praise . " In doing so , it also develops in its imagery the ...
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... [ Proem , 1 ] The poet's own enterprise balances elation and despair at the same time that it reflects the larger view of life as an involve- ment in an alternating cycle of growth and decay . His com- pensation for an apparently ...
... [ Proem , 1 ] The poet's own enterprise balances elation and despair at the same time that it reflects the larger view of life as an involve- ment in an alternating cycle of growth and decay . His com- pensation for an apparently ...
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... proem with these considerations in the foreground , we immediately find that once again we are meant to understand what follows by the patterns that the proem presents . The poet presents what seem to be two con- tradictory notions of ...
... proem with these considerations in the foreground , we immediately find that once again we are meant to understand what follows by the patterns that the proem presents . The poet presents what seem to be two con- tradictory notions of ...
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