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POLIXENES : There is an Art , which in their pidenesse shares With great creating - Nature . Say there be : Yet nature is made better by no meane , But Nature makes that Meane : so over that Art , ( Which you say addes to Nature ) is an ...
POLIXENES : There is an Art , which in their pidenesse shares With great creating - Nature . Say there be : Yet nature is made better by no meane , But Nature makes that Meane : so over that Art , ( Which you say addes to Nature ) is an ...
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But Milton does not see Paradise as a pre - Rousseauite home for ' natural - man ' . He is concerned to present the Garden ... The pastoral represented an ordered nature for man before the Fall , an environment which offered no threat .
But Milton does not see Paradise as a pre - Rousseauite home for ' natural - man ' . He is concerned to present the Garden ... The pastoral represented an ordered nature for man before the Fall , an environment which offered no threat .
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The aspiration is hopeless , but it destroys the possibility of any harmony with nature achieved on the terms of the habitable landscape of the Pastoral . The remaining history of the tradition is the history of its slow death ...
The aspiration is hopeless , but it destroys the possibility of any harmony with nature achieved on the terms of the habitable landscape of the Pastoral . The remaining history of the tradition is the history of its slow death ...
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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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