A Book of English Pastoral VerseJohn Barrell, John Bull, John Stanley Bull Oxford University Press, 1975 - 539 pages |
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... Golden Age represents will vary according to historical circumstances . To the Renaissance poet , the myth offered a con- veniently nostalgic view of a feudal past where a harmonious pre- urban community was still felt to exist ; while ...
... Golden Age represents will vary according to historical circumstances . To the Renaissance poet , the myth offered a con- veniently nostalgic view of a feudal past where a harmonious pre- urban community was still felt to exist ; while ...
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... Golden Age before the Golden Age . The hopelessness , the impossibility of Arcadia becomes clearer with each fresh artifice and masquerade- the poets of the generation after Sidney look back to the arguably less artificial Shepheardes ...
... Golden Age before the Golden Age . The hopelessness , the impossibility of Arcadia becomes clearer with each fresh artifice and masquerade- the poets of the generation after Sidney look back to the arguably less artificial Shepheardes ...
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... 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 Thomson a new Roman campagna , which flourishes in the certainty that history is progres ...
... 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 Thomson a new Roman campagna , which flourishes in the certainty that history is progres ...
Contents
Glossary | 10 |
Egloga Tertia | 23 |
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 155486 | 37 |
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ALEXANDER POPE alwayes Ametas AMORET Arcadia beneath birds breath Ceres charms Colin COMUS court dear delight doth dwell earth Eclogue ev'ry eyes fair fear feast feed fields fleece flocks flowers Garden gentle Georgic Golden Age grace green groves hand happy hast hath head hear heart Heaven Helpston hills innocence John Clare labour lambs land live look Lord Lycidas maid MELLIFLEUR mind mirth morn Muse nature never night nymph o'er pain Pastoral Pastoral Poetry PERDITA PERIGOT pipe plain pleasure poem poet poetry poor praise pride rest rich rise ROBIN-HOOD round rural rustic scene shade sheep shepherds sing smiling soft song soul spring Stephen Duck strain stream swain sweet thee THENOT Theocritus thine thou thought toil town tradition trees unto vale version of Pastoral wild winds winter Winter's Tale woods youth