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Introduction

PASTORAL IDEALS AND THE LIFE CYCLE

 

Woodcut depicting Youth and Old Age at the center of thecycle of months, from The Kalender of Sheepheards, London,1585. (Reproduced from The Shepheardes Calender (1579): A Facsimile Reproduction edited and with an introduction by S.K.Heninger Jr., courtesy Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints, Delmar, New York)

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Chapter One

PUER ETERNUS: THE PASTORAL OF YOUTH

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Chapter Two

FORTUNATE SENEX: THE PASTORAL OF OLD AGE

The Voice of the Ancient Bard" from William Blake's Songs of Experience

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Chapter Three

"THE SHEPHEARDES SORROW": ANTI-PASTORALS OF YOUTH AND AGE

Woodcut for the "Januarye" eclogue of Edmund Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender

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Chapter Four

"YOUTHE AND ELDE ARE OFTEN AT DEBAAT": MEDIEVAL CONFLICTUS AND RENAISSANCE PASTORAL DEBATE

Woodcut for the "Febrvarie" eclogue of Edmund Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender

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Chapter Five

THE BACKSTRETCHED CONNEXION: YOUTH AND AGE IN THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER

Woodcut for the "December" eclogue of Edmund Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender

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