The Virgilian pastoral tradition
Subtitle: from the Renaissance to the modern era
By: Nancy Lindheim.
Series: Medieval & Renaissance literary studies; Medieval and Renaissance literary studies.
Publisher: Duquesne University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780820703725
Subjects: Virgil -- Appreciation -- Great Britain; Virgil -- Influence; Pastoral literature, English -- History and criticism; English literature -- Roman influences; Renaissance -- England
Description: "This study contributes to a dialogue about the scope and meaning of pastoral, arguing for a more socially and aesthetically complex awareness of its significance. The study is text-based rather than thesis-driven, dealing mainly with Renaissance works by Spenser, Milton, and Shakespeare, but grounds itself in Virgil and concludes with pastoral's transmuted afterlife in Wordsworth and Samuel Beckett"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Shepheardes calender as Virgilian pastoral; title: Pastoral and masque at Ludlow; title: Pastoral and Georgic in Lycidas; title: The inclusion of fable : Daphnis and Chloe and Faerie queene 6; title: As you like it : "Hast any philosophy in thee, Shepherd?"; title: The winter's tale as pastoral tragicomedy; title: The exclusion of song : Wordsworth and Beckett.