Sidney's Poetic Justice: The Old Arcadia, Its Eclogues, and Renaissance Pastoral Traditions

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Bucknell University Press, 1986 - 277 páginas
The first book-length study of The Old Arcadia as a Renaissance pastoral romance. Stillman focuses attention on the 27 eclogues that Sidney sets within his prose narrative.

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Justice Contentment and the Idle Life
19
Pastoralism and Generic Definition
47
As Critic and Poet Sidney Defines Pastoral
64
From Prose to Poetry
81
Book One The Divided Mind
98
Book Two The Consequences of the Divided Mind
117
Book Three Contentment and Justice
133
Book Four Discontentation and Injustice
150
Nature and Art in The Old Arcadia
175
Notes
229
Works Cited
255
Index
268
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Página 146 - And he said, this will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you : he will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen ; and some shall run before his chariots.
Página 38 - The song I sang old Languet had me taught, Languet, the shepherd best swift Ister knew, For clerkly rede,* and hating what is naught, For faithful heart, clean hands, and mouth as true...
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Página 54 - Eglogue long after the other dramatick poems, not of purpose to counterfait or represent the rusticall manner of loues and communication, but vnder the vaile of homely persons and in rude speeches to insinuate and glaunce at greater matters...
Página 33 - For to what purpose should our thoughts be directed to various kinds of knowledge, unless room be afforded for putting it into practice, so that public advantage may be the result...
Página 73 - But the mind itself, you will say, that particle of the divine mind, is cultivated in this manner. This indeed, if we allow it to be the case, is a very great advantage: but let us see whether we are not giving a beautiful but false appearance to our splendid errors. For while the mind is thus, as it were, drawn out of itself, it cannot turn its powers inward for thorough self-examination ; to which employment no labour that men can undertake, is any way to be compared. Do you not see that I am cleverly...
Página 64 - Melibaeus' mouth can show the misery of people under hard lords or ravening soldiers, and again, by Tityrus, what blessedness is derived to them that lie lowest from the goodness of them that sit highest?
Página 67 - Basilius; a prince of sufficient skill to govern so quiet a country, where the good minds of the former princes had set down good laws, and the well bringing up of the people doth serve as a most sure bond to hold them.

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