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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Page 165
... youth to old age . The famous time - gap in The Winter's Tale , for example , startles the audience into a recognition that men indeed grow old and lose vitality . In a similar way , the narrative form of The Faerie Queene allows the ...
... youth to old age . The famous time - gap in The Winter's Tale , for example , startles the audience into a recognition that men indeed grow old and lose vitality . In a similar way , the narrative form of The Faerie Queene allows the ...
Page 166
... youth . The poet nonetheless takes the trouble to point out that not even a well - spent life exempts a man from the ravages of physical decay : He was to weete a man of full ripe yeares , That in his youth had beene of mickle might ...
... youth . The poet nonetheless takes the trouble to point out that not even a well - spent life exempts a man from the ravages of physical decay : He was to weete a man of full ripe yeares , That in his youth had beene of mickle might ...
Page 170
... youth in the book is somehow associated with this simple image : in Calidore , gentleness and manners " were planted natural " ( 1.2 ) ; Tristram grew " like as flowre . . . shut vp in the bud from heauens vew " ( 2.35 ) ; Pastorella ...
... youth in the book is somehow associated with this simple image : in Calidore , gentleness and manners " were planted natural " ( 1.2 ) ; Tristram grew " like as flowre . . . shut vp in the bud from heauens vew " ( 2.35 ) ; Pastorella ...
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