Pastoral and the Poetics of Self-Contradiction
Subtitle: Theocritus to Marvell
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 14, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780521034616
Subjects: Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; Literary Criticism; Poetry; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Semiotics & Theory; English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700--Hist; English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory; Literary Criticism-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism-Semiotics & Theory; Poetry / Single Author / British & Irish
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.