Oaten Reeds and Trumpets: Pastoral and Epic in Virgil, Spenser, and MiltonThorough 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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Acknowledgments | 11 |
Virgil | 17 |
Spenser and the Pastoral | 55 |
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Adam and Eve Adam's Aeneas Aeneid allegorical angels Arcadia beauty Bliss Book Bower Calender Calidore celestial Christ Christian Colin Comus contemplative dance death deeds describes divine earth Eclogue epic poetry Eve's evil Faerie Queene fallen world flock flowers fruit Garden of Adonis Georgics God's golden age golden world grace harmony Heaven heavenly hero heroic action heroism Hobbinol human humble humility idyllic imagination innocence John Milton Knight L'Allegro Lady locus amoenus Lycidas man's mankind masque melancholy Michael Milton moral eclogues moreover Muse mutability myth narrator Nativity Ode nature nymphs Orpheus otium pagan Paradise Lost pastoral enclave pastoral otium pastoral poetry pastoral world Pastorella peace Penseroso physical pleasure poem poet poet's poetic quest recreative Red Cross Renaissance reveals Satan Shepheardes Calender shepherd shepherd-poet simile singing match Spenser spiritual suggests symbolic thee thematic theme Theocritus thir tion Tityrus tradition tree University Press Virgil virtue vision woods