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Introduction PASTORAL IDEALS AND THE LIFE CYCLE
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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 |
Frontispiece from William Blake's Songs of Innocence | 21 | html | |
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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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Bibliography |
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