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Maria Fairfax And The “Easy Philosopher”: Action And Indolence In Andrew Marvell’S “Upon Appleton House”, Byron Nelson
Maria Fairfax And The “Easy Philosopher”: Action And Indolence In Andrew Marvell’S “Upon Appleton House”, Byron Nelson
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Andrew Marvell dramatizes the difficult choice between action and indolence in his long pastoral poem, “Upon Appleton House.” The nameless nun’s rhetorical temptation of Isabel Thwaites, as narrated in an apparent digression from the past history of the house, anticipates the poet’s own self-seduction in the woods later in the poem. Both Isabel and the poet need to be rescued from their fallen state. The tension between action and passivity is resolved by the redemptive appearance of “Maria.” The model for her providential intervention is the Shakespearean romance, in which an innocent daughter, who is rescued from danger and degradation, …
Review Essay: John D. Bernard, Ceremonies Of Innocence: Pastoralism In The Poetry Of Edmund Spenser, Steven Max Miller
Review Essay: John D. Bernard, Ceremonies Of Innocence: Pastoralism In The Poetry Of Edmund Spenser, Steven Max Miller
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John D. Bernard, Ceremonies of Innocence: Pastoralism in the Poetry of Edmund Spenser, Cambridge University Press, 1989, ix, 242 pp., biblio., $42.50.
From Campus To Campus: English University Life And The Renaissance Pastoral, Gary M. Bouchard
From Campus To Campus: English University Life And The Renaissance Pastoral, Gary M. Bouchard
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Literary critics have relied increasingly upon what we know of the particular goings-on at the court of Queen Elizabeth to explain all things we call Elizabethan, including a vast corpus of poetry. Pastoral poetry in particular, long regarded as an allegorical embodiment of court politics, is seen now more than ever as a product of social and political power struggles. I argue instead that the pastoral poetry of Renaissance England has to do with the academic world as much as, if not more than, with the ancillary world of the court, it was born of the academy, where Edmund Spenser …
Review Essay: David R. Shore, Spenser And The Poetics Of Pastoral: A Study Of The World Of Colin Clout, Sandy Feinstein
Review Essay: David R. Shore, Spenser And The Poetics Of Pastoral: A Study Of The World Of Colin Clout, Sandy Feinstein
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David R. Shore, Spenser and the Poetics of Pastoral: A Study of the World of Colin Clout, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1985.