The Pastoral Mode: A Casebook

Ambrose Philips ancient Arcadia beauty bourgeois bucolic century character Christian civilisation classical contrast conventional Corin countryside court courtly critical D. H. Lawrence Daphnis death eclogues elegy essay extract Faerie Queene feeling fiction flocks flowers forest garden Gay's genre Georgics Golden Age happy Hardy hath herdsmen human ideal idyll imagination innocence Jaques Katharine Philips kind lament landscape language literary live London Lycidas lyric Milton modern moral myth native nature noble savage Oaten Orlando Oroonoko Paradise passion pastoral form pastoral novel pastoral poetry pastoral world Philips Philips's play poem poem's poet poet's poetic Pope Pope's praise publications include realistic recognise romantic Rosalind rural rustic scene sense Shakespeare Shepheardes Calender Shepherd's Week shepherds simple simplicity singing social society song Spenser Stesichorus Talbothays Tess theme Theocritus things Thomas Purney Tickell traditional pastoral verse Versions of Pastoral Virgil W. H. Auden wild Wordsworth writing