The Minor Poems in EnglishMacmillan, 1972 - 362 pages |
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... pastoral form , which has built into it from the beginning certain ironies , certain kinds of sophisticated double - think which are scarcely compatible with the simple celebration of nature . Even Theocritus , as I have said , while he ...
... pastoral form , which has built into it from the beginning certain ironies , certain kinds of sophisticated double - think which are scarcely compatible with the simple celebration of nature . Even Theocritus , as I have said , while he ...
Page 54
... pastoral , the fact that Christian truths are shadowed beneath a traditional and pagan veil . But this is not true of Lycidas . Hitherto in the poem the Christian elements have been allowed to transcend the pastoral convention . At one ...
... pastoral , the fact that Christian truths are shadowed beneath a traditional and pagan veil . But this is not true of Lycidas . Hitherto in the poem the Christian elements have been allowed to transcend the pastoral convention . At one ...
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... pastoral elegy remained static throughout the period from Virgil to the pastoral poets of the Renaissance , notwithstanding one or two interesting poems ventured during the brilliant but short- lived Carolingian revival of learning ...
... pastoral elegy remained static throughout the period from Virgil to the pastoral poets of the Renaissance , notwithstanding one or two interesting poems ventured during the brilliant but short- lived Carolingian revival of learning ...
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