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What the Golden Age represents will vary according to historical circumstances . To the Renaissance poet , the myth offered a conveniently nostalgic view of a feudal past where a harmonious preurban community was still felt to exist ...
What the Golden Age represents will vary according to historical circumstances . To the Renaissance poet , the myth offered a conveniently nostalgic view of a feudal past where a harmonious preurban community was still felt to exist ...
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There is in Drayton's Pastoral no simple or formal nostalgia for the Golden Age - his shepherds are old , their time has past , they live on to mock the pastoral pretensions of those around them . The few youth- ful shepherds in these ...
There is in Drayton's Pastoral no simple or formal nostalgia for the Golden Age - his shepherds are old , their time has past , they live on to mock the pastoral pretensions of those around them . The few youth- ful shepherds in these ...
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But this lack of nostalgia does not involve a lack of classical reference : the English Golden Age has more affinities to the age of Augustus than to the first , primitive Golden Age of Saturn , and the valley of the Thames becomes for ...
But this lack of nostalgia does not involve a lack of classical reference : the English Golden Age has more affinities to the age of Augustus than to the first , primitive Golden Age of Saturn , and the valley of the Thames becomes for ...
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Contents
THE ELIZABETHAN PASTORAL II | 11 |
Egloga Tertia | 23 |
Four poems from the Arcadia | 37 |
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appear bear beneath breath bright bring charms court delight doth earth eyes face fair fall fear feel fields flocks flowers Garden give Golden grace green groves grow hand happy hath head hear heart hills hope innocence keep kind labour land leave light live look Lord mean mind morn muse nature never night o'er once pain Pastoral plain play pleasure poem poet poetry poor praise pride rest rich rise round rural scene seems seen shade sheep shepherds side simple sing smiling soft song soon soul sound spread Spring stand stream swain sweet tell thee things thou thought toil town tradition trees true turn village wild wind woods youth
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| Title | The Penguin Book of English Pastoral Verse |
| Editors | John Barrell, John Bull |
| Publisher | Allen Lane, 1974 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 1 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0713906103, 9780713906103 |
| Length | 539 pages |
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