The uses of nostalgia; studies in pastoral poetry.
Title:
The uses of nostalgia; studies in pastoral poetry.
Author:
Lerner, Laurence.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Schocken Books [1972]
Physical Description:
248 pages ; 23 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
A map of Arcadia: What pastoral is -- On nostalgia -- Arcadia and Utopia -- Sex in Arcadia -- Golden slumbers: the politics of pastoral -- City troubles: pastoral and satire -- Some Arcadians: Sir Calidore's holiday (pastoral in The faerie queene) -- Farewell, rewards and fairies (the world of Comus) -- Pastoral versus Christianity (nature in Marvell) -- Loss of paradise (Milton's Eden) -- Olympus' faded hierarchy (antiquity in Keats and Nerval) -- Proper place of nostalgia (Arnold's pastoral impulse).
ISBN:
9780805234657
Format :
Book
