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Tradition and convention
A study of periphrasis in English pastoral poetry from 1557–1715
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Tradition and convention
A study of periphrasis in English pastoral poetry from 1557–1715
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- I. The Style, the Mode, and their Relationships
- A. What Periphrase Meant
- B. What Decorum Meant
- C. What Pastoral Meant
- II. Periphrasis with a Purpose
- A. Periphrase in Practice
- 1. Sir Philip Sidney: Periphrase in Arcadia
- 2. Edmund Spenser: Periphrase at the Service of Decorum in the Eclogues
- 3. Pastoral Language in Spenser’s Imitators
- B. The Mechanics of Periphrase
- 1. Introductory and Transitional Periphrase
- 2. The Meaningful Use of Incidental Periphrase
- 3. Periphrases less Directly Connected with the Pastoral Mode
- C. Creation of the Artificial Scene through Conventions of Allegory and Periphrase
- D. The Relation of Periphrase to Pastoral Realism
- 1. The Relation of Periphrase and Pastoral Realism to Mixed Allegory
- 2. Sheep, and the Changing Effects of Conventional Allusion
- E. The Power of the Tradition and its Relation to Periphrase
- III. Periphrase without Purpose
- A. Pastoral Reality in a Metaphorical Field
- B. The Golden Pastoral
- C. Periphrastic Expression of Natural Sympathy
- D. Nymphs and Shepherds
- IV. Conclusion
- A. The Tradition
- B. Natural Sympathy, Divorced from Observation of Nature
- C. Realism through Comic Particularity
- D. Periphrase without System
- E. Convention
- Bibliography