English Pastoral Drama: From the Restoration to the Date of the Publication of the "lyrical Ballads" (1660-1798) |
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... poems of Spenser , it may be said that pastorals became an enduring part of English literature.1 Pastoral romance . So far , from the idyls of Theocritus , written about 300 B.C. , to the apparent naturalization of the pastoral in ...
... poems of Spenser , it may be said that pastorals became an enduring part of English literature.1 Pastoral romance . So far , from the idyls of Theocritus , written about 300 B.C. , to the apparent naturalization of the pastoral in ...
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... poems , often exquisitely beautiful , lay a song impulse which these factors but nourished . The pastoral drama is frequently regarded , perhaps from the bewilderment of its plots , as chaotic rather than coherent . But grant- Divisions ...
... poems , often exquisitely beautiful , lay a song impulse which these factors but nourished . The pastoral drama is frequently regarded , perhaps from the bewilderment of its plots , as chaotic rather than coherent . But grant- Divisions ...
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... poems represents of pastoral an entire school , mainly concerned in dressing their shepherds very much as they like , and in refusing to see them dressed as they really are . In fact , the two large schools of the pastoralists may be ...
... poems represents of pastoral an entire school , mainly concerned in dressing their shepherds very much as they like , and in refusing to see them dressed as they really are . In fact , the two large schools of the pastoralists may be ...
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... poem should consist in its " simplicity , brevity , and delicacy ; the two first of which render an eclogue natural , and the last delightful . " Based , as his juvenile discourse is , upon Rapin , Fontenelle , and Walsh , he criticizes ...
... poem should consist in its " simplicity , brevity , and delicacy ; the two first of which render an eclogue natural , and the last delightful . " Based , as his juvenile discourse is , upon Rapin , Fontenelle , and Walsh , he criticizes ...
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... poems of Philip's as an improvement upon Virgil and Theocritus . As pastoral poetry is chiefly the result of the fancy , its business is to amuse . Its effect upon Mrs. Cornelia Lizard he describes with an admirable minuteness worthy a ...
... poems of Philip's as an improvement upon Virgil and Theocritus . As pastoral poetry is chiefly the result of the fancy , its business is to amuse . Its effect upon Mrs. Cornelia Lizard he describes with an admirable minuteness worthy a ...
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