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But these shepherds , at least as courtly as their European predecessors , are equally capable of the bucolic roughness we find in Theocritus , and Spenser's problem in this poem , and his success , was a matter of finding a form in ...
But these shepherds , at least as courtly as their European predecessors , are equally capable of the bucolic roughness we find in Theocritus , and Spenser's problem in this poem , and his success , was a matter of finding a form in ...
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The idea that the Pastoral is masquerade , that the ' shepherd's weeds ' are not the natural attributes of the poet ... Sir Calidore , staying among the shepherds of Arcadia and finding fair Pastorella unimpressed by his ' courteous ...
The idea that the Pastoral is masquerade , that the ' shepherd's weeds ' are not the natural attributes of the poet ... Sir Calidore , staying among the shepherds of Arcadia and finding fair Pastorella unimpressed by his ' courteous ...
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Ben Jonson , in his play The Sad Shepherd ( c . 1612 ) , appears to be trying to write as conventional and proper a Pastoral as he can , but one dealing with English and not Arcadian shepherds ; the result is a sort of epitaph on the ...
Ben Jonson , in his play The Sad Shepherd ( c . 1612 ) , appears to be trying to write as conventional and proper a Pastoral as he can , but one dealing with English and not Arcadian shepherds ; the result is a sort of epitaph on the ...
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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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