Oaten Reeds and Trumpets: Pastoral and Epic in Virgil, Spenser, and MiltonBucknell University Press, 1981 - 287 páginas Thorough study of the essential interdependence of the pastoral and epic genres. Proceeds historically from Virgil tracing the evolution of the heroic toward the increasing accommodation of the pastoral. Establishes principles for interpreting the works of major poets who set out to resolve the tensions between imagination and reality, contemplation and action, poetry and prophecy. |
Contenido
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The Georgics | 35 |
The Aeneid | 43 |
Spenser and the Pastoral | 55 |
The Shepheardes Calender | 59 |
The Faerie Queene | 89 |
Miltons Pastoral Poetry | 134 |
Milton and the Epic Tradition | 186 |
Miltonic Variations on the Pastoral | 191 |
Perspectives and Pastoral Modes | 209 |
Creation as Pastoral | 220 |
Paradise Lost II | 228 |
Judgment and the Georgic | 244 |
History and the Return of the Epic | 249 |
The ShepherdHero | 260 |
On the Morning of Christs Nativity | 135 |
LAllegro and II Penseroso | 146 |
Arcades | 154 |
A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle | 158 |
Lycidas | 173 |
Paradise Lost I | 185 |
The Transformation of the Pastoral | 264 |
Notes | 269 |
List of Works Cited | 276 |
Index | 282 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Oaten Reeds and Trumpets: Pastoral and Epic in Virgil, Spenser, and Milton Donald Maurice Rosenberg Vista de fragmentos - 1981 |
Términos y frases comunes
Adam and Eve Adam's Aeneas Aeneid allegory angels Arcadia beauty Bliss Book Bower Calidore celestial Christ Christian Colin Comus contemplative dance death deeds describes divine earth Eclogue Edmund Spenser Eve's evil Faerie Queene fallen world flock flowers fruit Garden of Adonis Georgics God's golden age golden world grace harmony Heaven heavenly hero heroic action heroism Hobbinol human humility idyllic Il Penseroso innocence John Milton Knight L'Allegro Lady locus amoenus Lycidas man's mankind masque melancholy Michael moral eclogues moreover Muse mutability myth narrator Nativity Ode nature nymphs Orpheus otium pagan Paradise Lost pastoral and epic pastoral enclave pastoral ideal pastoral otium pastoral poetry pastoral world Pastorella Penseroso physical poem poet poet's poetic quest recreative Red Cross Renaissance reveals Satan Shepheardes Calender shepherd shepherd-poet simile singing match Spenser spiritual suggests symbolic thee thematic theme Theocritus thir tion Tityrus tradition tree University Press Virgil virtue vision woods
Referencias a este libro
The Devotional Experience in the Poetry of John Milton Michael Ernest Travers Vista de fragmentos - 1988 |
Broken English: Dialects and the Politics of Language in Renaissance Writings Paula Blank Sin vista previa disponible - 2002 |