Title Pastoral and the poetics of self-contradiction : Theocritus to Marvell / Judith Haber

Published Cambridge, GBR : Cambridge University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (234 pages) Contents Introduction: "Remedies themselves complain": pastoral poetry, pastoral criticism -- 1. Bringing it all back home : bucolic and heroic in Theocritus' Idylls -- 2. Si numquam fallit imago: Virgil's revision of Theocritus -- 3. Pastime and passion: the impasse in the Old Arcadia -- 4. Complaints themselves remedy: Marvell's lyrics as problem and solution -- Epilogue: Farewell to pastoral: The Shepherd's Week Notes Print version record Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-212) and index Subject Theocritus. Idylls. Virgil. Bucolica. Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678 -- Criticism and interpretation. Sidney, Philip Sir, 1554-1586. Arcadia Contradiction in literature. Country life in literature. English poetry -- Classical influences. English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism. Pastoral poetry, Classical -- History and criticism. Pastoral poetry, English -- History and criticism. Poetry -- Psychological aspects. Self in literature. SUBJECT Rome (Empire) -- In literature Form Electronic book ISBN 0511518897 9780511518898

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