Pastoral and the Poetics of Self-Contradiction
Subtitle: Theocritus to Marvell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 27, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780521442060
Subjects: Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; Religion; Literary Criticism; Early Modern English Poetry (1500-1700); Poetry; English; Pastoral poetry, English; Marvell, Andrew,; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Arcadia; Bucolica; Criticism and interpretation; English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism; Idylls; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory; Marvell, Andrew; Sidney, Philip; Early modern, 1500-1700; Semiotics & Theory; 1621-1678; English poetry; History and criticism; Pastoral poetry, Classical
First sentence: Too often, Theocritus' poetry has been oversimplified of simply overlooked by readers of English pastoral; the Idylls have regularly been dismissed as a naive point of origin from which Virgil and later poets deviated.