Poggioli, Renato. The oaten flute : essays on pastoral poetry and the pastoral ideal

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

The oaten flute.--Pastoral love.--The funeral elegy.--Milton's Lycidas.--The Christian pastoral.--Dante Poco tempo silvano : a pastoral oasis in the Commedia.--The poetics of the pastoral.--The pastoral of the self.--Pastoral and Soledad.--Naboth's vineyard : the pastoral view of the social order.--Arkadisch frei sei unser Glück! : Goethe and the pastoral.--Gogol's Old-fashioned landowners : an inverted eclogue.--Tolstoy's Domestic happiness : beyond pastoral love.--L'Heure du Berger : Mallarme's grand eclogue