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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... speaker in the midst of the natural world . This positioning is accomplished struc- turally in much the same way as in the Ode . In that poem the middle stanzas ( 9-14 ) consisted of the speaker's joyous description of the heavenly ...
... speaker in the midst of the natural world . This positioning is accomplished struc- turally in much the same way as in the Ode . In that poem the middle stanzas ( 9-14 ) consisted of the speaker's joyous description of the heavenly ...
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... speaker , as for Il Penseroso , the joys of the landscape . In fact , Virgil's speaker is willing to settle for less . If he cannot be admitted to the mysterious do- main of the heavens , then , like L'Allegro , he will go back to the ...
... speaker , as for Il Penseroso , the joys of the landscape . In fact , Virgil's speaker is willing to settle for less . If he cannot be admitted to the mysterious do- main of the heavens , then , like L'Allegro , he will go back to the ...
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... speaker , as he bids the Sicilian Muse of his literary ritual to return . The following culminating double vision of the flower catalogue and then of the sounding seas perfectly captures the pitch and toss of the speaker's imagination ...
... speaker , as he bids the Sicilian Muse of his literary ritual to return . The following culminating double vision of the flower catalogue and then of the sounding seas perfectly captures the pitch and toss of the speaker's imagination ...
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