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first sight much like what is called ' Pastoral ' in 1770 , and yet the reader is left with a firm impression of a shared tradition , of a common body of material being worked over . But it is not sufficient to point to the subject ...
first sight much like what is called ' Pastoral ' in 1770 , and yet the reader is left with a firm impression of a shared tradition , of a common body of material being worked over . But it is not sufficient to point to the subject ...
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Sidney and Spenser were eloquent adherents to a European tradition which saw poetry in terms of different kinds ' with different subjects appropriate to them ; so that kings , lords , military leaders could properly appear only in the ...
Sidney and Spenser were eloquent adherents to a European tradition which saw poetry in terms of different kinds ' with different subjects appropriate to them ; so that kings , lords , military leaders could properly appear only in the ...
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But ' Lycidas ' is not just the culmination of the ' idealized ' tradition . The world of the traditional Pastoral is opposed by that of the Christian myth , and the poem concludes with a resolution of the two in the resurrection of ...
But ' Lycidas ' is not just the culmination of the ' idealized ' tradition . The world of the traditional Pastoral is opposed by that of the Christian myth , and the poem concludes with a resolution of the two in the resurrection of ...
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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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