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Focusing on poets such as Thomas Gray and William Cowper, Pre-Romantic Poetry investigates pastoral poetry and literary patronage in ways that shift prevailing notions of Eighteenth-Century and Romantic poetry.
Pastoral poetry, English --- English poetry --- History and criticism.
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"Virgil's represent the introduction of a new genre, pastoral, to Latin literature. Generic markers of pastoral in the Eclogues include not only the representation of the singing and speaking of shepherd characters, but also the learned density of the text itself. Here, Brian W. Breed examines the tension between representations of orality in Virgil's pastoral world and the intense textuality of his pastoral poetry. The book argues that separation between speakers and their language in the Eclogues is not merely pastoral preciosity. Rather, it shows how Virgil uses representations of orality as the point of comparison for measuring both the capacity and the limitations of the Eclogues as a written text that will be encountered by reading audiences. The importance of genre is considered both in terms of how pastoral might be defined for the particular literary-historical moment in which Virgil was writing and in light of the subsequent European pastoral tradition."--Bloomsbury Publishing. Virgil's "Eclogues" represent the introduction of a new genre, pastoral, to Latin literature. Generic markers of pastoral in the "Eclogues" include not only the representation of the singing and speaking of shepherd characters, but also the learned density of the text itself. Here, Brian W. Breed examines the tension between representations of orality in Virgil's pastoral world and the intense textuality of his pastoral poetry. The book argues that separation between speakers and their language in the "Eclogues" is not merely pastoral preciosity. Rather, it shows how Virgil uses representations of orality as the point of comparison for measuring both the capacity and the limitations of the "Eclogues" as a written text that will be encountered by reading audiences. The importance of genre is considered both in terms of how pastoral might be defined for the particular literary-historical moment in which Virgil was writing and in light of the subsequent European pastoral tradition
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Pastoral poetry, Latin --- Poésie pastorale latine --- Culex --- Virgile --- Culex. --- Poésie pastorale latine
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Defying critical suggestions that the pastoral elegy is obsolete, Iain Twiddy reveals the popularity of the form in the work of major contemporary poets Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Paul Muldoon, Michael Longley, Douglas Dunn and Peter Reading.As Twiddy outlines the development of the form, he identifies its characteristics and functions. But more importantly his study accounts for the enduring appeal of the pastoral elegy, why poets look to its conventions during times of personal distress and social disharmony, and how it allows them to recover from grief, loss and destruction. Informed by
Pastoral poetry, English --- Elegiac poetry, English --- English poetry --- History and criticism. --- Irish authors
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Country life in literature --- Pastoral poetry, Latin --- History and criticism --- Calpurnius Siculus, Titus. --- Rome --- In literature.
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This study of the Eclogues focuses on Vergil’s exploration of issues relating to the subject of human happiness ( eudaimonia )–ideas that were the subject of robust debate in contemporary philosophical schools, including the community of émigré Epicurean teachers and their Roman pupils located in the vicinity of Naples (“Parthenope”). The latent “interplay of ideas” implicit in the songs of the various poet-herdsmen centers on differing attitudes to acute misfortune and loss, particularly in the spheres of land dispossession and frustrated erotic desire. In the bucolic dystopia that Vergil constructs for his audience, the singers resort to different means of coping with the vagaries of fortune ( tyche ). This relatively neglected ethical dimension of the poems in the Bucolic collection receives a systematic treatment that provides a useful complement to the primarily aesthetic and socio-political approaches that have predominated in previous scholarship. 'This book is insightful and engaging; amatores of Vergil's Eclogues (scholars, students, or enthusiasts) will find the work accessible and profitable.' Kristi Eastin, California State University, Fresno
Virgil. --- Virgil. Bucolica. --- Languages & Literatures --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- Pastoral poetry, Latin --- History and criticism. --- Virgil. - Bucolica
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Pastoral poetry, Italian --- Italian poetry --- Italian language --- History and criticism --- Rhyme --- Accademia degli Arcadi --- Italian pastoral poetry --- Italian literature --- Romance languages --- Accademia degli Arcadi. --- Accademia dell'Arcadia --- Academy of the Arcadians --- Academy of Arcadia --- Academy of Arcadians --- Pontificia Accademia degli Arcadi --- Accademia letteraria italiana --- Pastoral poetry, Italian - Concordances --- Italian poetry - 18th century - Concordances --- Pastoral poetry, Italian - History and criticism --- Italian poetry - 18th century - History and criticism --- Italian language - Rhyme
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Edward Thomas: The Origins of his Poetry builds a new theoretical framework for critical work on imaginative composition through an investigation of Edward Thomas's composing processes, on material from his letters, his poems and his prose books. It looks at his relation to the land and landscape and includes detailed and illuminating new readings of his poems. It traces connections between Thomas's approach to composition and the writing and thought of Freud, Woolf and William James, and the influence of Japanese aesthetics, and draws surprising and far-reaching conclusions for the study of p
Poets, English --- Thomas, Edward, --- Eastaway, Edward, --- Wales --- Pastoral poetry, English --- Soldiers' writings, English --- English poetry --- History and criticism.
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Pastoral poetry, Latin --- Country life --- Poésie pastorale latine --- Vie rurale --- Translations into Italian --- Poetry --- Traductions italiennes --- Poésie --- Virgil.
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John Clare (1793-1864) is one of the most sensitive poetic observers of the natural world. Born into a rural labouring family, he felt connected to two communities: his native village and the Romantic and earlier poets who inspired him. The first part of this study of Clare and community shows how Clare absorbed and responded to his reading of a selection of poets including Chatterton, Bloomfield, Gray and Keats, revealing just how serious the process of self-education was to his development. The second part shows how he combined this reading with the oral folk-culture he was steeped in, to create an unrivalled poetic record of a rural culture during the period of enclosure, and the painful transition to the modern world. In his lifelong engagement with rural and literary life, Clare understood the limitations as well as the strengths in communities, the pleasures as well as the horrors of isolation.
Pastoral poetry, English --- Communities in literature. --- Country life in literature. --- Community in literature --- History and criticism. --- Clare, John, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Northamptonshire (England) --- County of Northamptonshire (England) --- East Midlands (England) --- In literature. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature
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