Renaissance Pastoral and Its English DevelopmentsClarendon Press, 1989 - 487 pages This book, the first critical history of English Renaissance pastoral since 1906, combines factual history with critical analyses of major authors and areas, including several continental pastoralists and Renaissance readings of Virgil's Eclogues. It explores the extent, variety, and complexity of Renaissance pastoral and the forces that helped shape it, discusses language and literary convention, and examines the political and topical implications of pastoral as well as significant details of publication and patronage. |
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Page 165
... earlier . The Shirburn Ballads illustrate this point.30 Among other examples , The Countryman's Delight has been traced from Henry VIII's day to late seventeenth- century broadsides.31 King Edward IV and the Tanner of Tamworth was ...
... earlier . The Shirburn Ballads illustrate this point.30 Among other examples , The Countryman's Delight has been traced from Henry VIII's day to late seventeenth- century broadsides.31 King Edward IV and the Tanner of Tamworth was ...
Page 197
... earlier . Wither's Philarete , in Fair Virtue , is clearly a country gentleman ( the poet ) assuming a shepherd's persona : though I can well prove my blood to be Deriv'd from no ignoble stems to me If any of those virtues yet I have ...
... earlier . Wither's Philarete , in Fair Virtue , is clearly a country gentleman ( the poet ) assuming a shepherd's persona : though I can well prove my blood to be Deriv'd from no ignoble stems to me If any of those virtues yet I have ...
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... earlier , at least in part . The poem falls into three sections : the lament of the lovesick Dorilus ; his merry friends ' song praising his beloved Sirena ; and their call to help protect their flocks from ' Rougish Swinheards ' . In ...
... earlier , at least in part . The poem falls into three sections : the lament of the lovesick Dorilus ; his merry friends ' song praising his beloved Sirena ; and their call to help protect their flocks from ' Rougish Swinheards ' . In ...
Contents
Pastoral and the Renaissance Lyric | 90 |
English Pastoral before Spenser | 113 |
The Shepheardes Calender | 132 |
Copyright | |
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