Pastoral and the poetics of self-contradiction : Theocritus to Marvell
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1994. 1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #409346
ISBN: 0521442060
Physical description: xiv, 218 pages, 22 cm. Notes: Includes index. Contents: Introduction: "Remedies themselves complain": pastoral poetry, pastoral criticism -- 1. Bringing it all back home : bucolic and heroic in Theocritus' Idylls -- 2. Si numquam fallit imago: Virgil's revision of Theocritus -- 3. Pastime and passion: the impasse in the Old Arcadia -- 4. Complaints themselves remedy: Marvell's lyrics as problem and solution -- Epilogue: Farewell to pastoral: The Shepherd's Week. Subjects: Marvell, Andrew 1621-1678 Criticism and interpretation; Sidney, Philip 1554-1586l; Arcadia; Theocritus, Idylls; Virgil, Bucolica; Ecloques.
Price: €85.00