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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... understanding of human ex- perience , how is he to embody his vision in the difficult , often betraying medium of language ? What is the relationship of poetry , and especially pastoral , with its palpable artifice and rigid formality ...
... understanding of human ex- perience , how is he to embody his vision in the difficult , often betraying medium of language ? What is the relationship of poetry , and especially pastoral , with its palpable artifice and rigid formality ...
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... understanding of the overar- ching vision of life that consistently motivates the narrative more important than in book 6. The vagaries of criticism that surround the book testify to the difficulties readers have had in deriving from it ...
... understanding of the overar- ching vision of life that consistently motivates the narrative more important than in book 6. The vagaries of criticism that surround the book testify to the difficulties readers have had in deriving from it ...
Page 190
... understanding necessary to continue his quest . I say " seems " because no such understanding is explicit . As many have noted , there is no statement of Calidore's enlightenment as a result of the vision . Nevertheless , it cannot be ...
... understanding necessary to continue his quest . I say " seems " because no such understanding is explicit . As many have noted , there is no statement of Calidore's enlightenment as a result of the vision . Nevertheless , it cannot be ...
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