Pastoral Literature of the English Renaissance - Further Reading
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Alpers, Paul. “Pastoral and the Domain of Lyric in Spenser's Shepheardes Calender.” Representations 12 (Autumn 1985): 83-100.
Discusses the influence of Spenser's Shepheardes Calender on English poetry, arguing that in composing the first set of English pastorals in the European tradition Spenser helped himself—and English poetry in general—to overcome the difficulties of writing lyric verse.
Bernard, John D. “Spenserian Pastoral and the Amoretti.” ELH 47, No. 3 (Autumn 1980): 419-32.
Argues that the pastoral is a major factor that shapes Edmund Spenser's conception of his subject in the love poems of the Amoretti.
Blanchard, J. Marc. “The Tree and the Garden: Pastoral Poetics and Milton's Rhetoric of Desire.” Modern Language Notes 91, No. 6 (1976): 1540-68.
Examines “Comus” and Paradise Lost in the context of...
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