Oaten Reeds and Trumpets: Pastoral and Epic in Virgil, Spenser, and MiltonBucknell University Press, 1981 - 287 էջ Thorough study of the essential interdependence of the pastoral and epic genres. Proceeds historically from Virgil tracing the evolution of the heroic toward the increasing accommodation of the pastoral. Establishes principles for interpreting the works of major poets who set out to resolve the tensions between imagination and reality, contemplation and action, poetry and prophecy. |
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The Georgics | 35 |
The Aeneid | 43 |
Spenser and the Pastoral | 55 |
The Shepheardes Calender | 59 |
The Faerie Queene | 89 |
Miltons Pastoral Poetry | 134 |
Milton and the Epic Tradition | 186 |
Miltonic Variations on the Pastoral | 191 |
Perspectives and Pastoral Modes | 209 |
Creation as Pastoral | 220 |
Paradise Lost II | 228 |
Judgment and the Georgic | 244 |
History and the Return of the Epic | 249 |
The ShepherdHero | 260 |
On the Morning of Christs Nativity | 135 |
LAllegro and II Penseroso | 146 |
Arcades | 154 |
A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle | 158 |
Lycidas | 173 |
Paradise Lost I | 185 |
The Transformation of the Pastoral | 264 |
Notes | 269 |
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