...Andrew V. Ettin Patterson Annabel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. xiv + 343 pp. $45.00. Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 190 REVIEWS Pastoral and Ideology: Virgil to Val@. By ANNABELPATTERSON...

...William A. Oram Paul Alpers. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. xiv + 430 pp. $14.95. Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Reviews What Is Pastoral? By Paul Alpers. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. xiv + 430 pp. $14.95. The dust jacket of Paul...

...William Burgan Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 TOKENS OF WINTER IN DICKENS’S PASTORAL SETTINGS By WILLIAMBURGAN In the last year of his life, while he was writing The Mystery of Edwin Drood...

...Lore Metzger Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 WORDS WORTH’S PASTORAL COVENANT By LOREMETZCER No poem better exemplifies the authentic Wordsworthian mode of pastoral than “Michael.” Its subtitle, “A Pastoral Poem...

...John R. Knott, Jr. Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 THE PASTORAL DAY IN PARADZSE LOST By JOHN R. KNOIT, JR. One o€ the most interesting developments in recent criticism of Paradise Lost has been the emergence of a body...

...L. J. Swingle Lore Metzger. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. xix + 274 pp. $25.00. Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 L. J. SWINGLE 325 One Foot in Eden: Modes of Pastoral in Romantic...

...Elizabeth Artis Watts The Pastoral Elegy: An Anthology . Edited with Introduction, Commentary, and Notes by Thomas Perrin Harrison, Jr., with English Translations by Harry Joshua Leon. Austin, Texas: The University of Texas, 1939. Pp. 312. $2.50. Copyright 1940 by University of Washington...

..., but playing piquet? MORRISBISHOP Cornell Uniuers it y Marvell’s Pastoral Art. Hy DONALDM. FRIEDMAN.Berkeley and 1,os Angeles: University of California Press, 1970. vii 4- 300 pp. $6.95. In his British Academy lecture...

...Peter Lindenbaum Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 TIME, SEXUAL LOVE, AND THE USES OF PASTORAL IN THE WINTER’S TALEX By PETERLINDENBAUM Time in The Winter’s Tale is not merely cited as a force man has to reckon...

...George de F. Lord Harold E. Toliver. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1971. viii + 391 pp. $12.50 Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 REVIEWS Pastoral Forms and Attitudes. By HAROLDE. TOLIVER.Berkeley, Los...

...Harold Toliver Laurence Lerner. New York: Schocken Books, 1972. 248 pp. $10.00. Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 REVIEWS The Uses ofNostalgza: Studies in Pastoral Poetry. By LAURENCELERNER. New York: Schocken Books, 19’72. 248 pp. $10.00...

... but 1770-1800.) SI’UAK’I‘iLI. TAVE University of Chicago Blake’s Night: William Blake ancl the Idea oj Pastoral. Hy DAVIDWAGEN- KNECFIT. Cambridge: Kelknap Press of Harvarcl University Press, 1973. x 4- 32 1 pp. Sj; 12.00...

... University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America. By LEOMARX. New York: Oxford University Press, 1964. 392 pp. $6.75. The resonant title of this book is also very precise. Leo Marx is concerned with the relation between two images...

... heterogeneity were intrinsically related to its political critique. His objections to “Lycidas” also reflected his view that pastoral depicted an idealized life of rural leisure to distract and entertain city men. This ancient association between pastoral and leisure may have informed eighteenth-century readers...

...Danila Sokolov Abstract The language of arboreal metamorphosis in Lady Mary Wroth’s pastoral song “The Spring Now Come att Last” from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (1621) may invoke the myth of Apollo and Daphne. However, the Ovidian narrative so central to Petrarchan poetics celebrates the male poet...

..., deforestation) are perceived; nostalgia for a pastoral past is honestly felt but recognized as impractical; devastation on a national, imperial, and even global scale is foretold; and hope for the earth’s future comes in a form largely symbolic or mythical—as vision more than prediction. Forster’s awareness...

.... $8.95. Hallett Smith. Shakespeare's Romances: A Study of Some Ways of the Imagination . San Marino: Huntington Library, 1972. xiii + 244 pp. $8.50. David Young. The Heart's Forest: A Study of Shakespeare's Pastoral Plays. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972. xii + 209 pp. $7.95...

...Hoyt Trowbridge Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 POPE, GAY, AND THE SHEPHERD’S WEEK By HOYTTROWBRIDGE I The Shepherd’s Week, John Gay’s cycle of pastoral eclogues, was published on April 15, 1714.l...

... liver Goldsmith’s reputation as a narrowly pastoral poet is attrib- 0utable to two factors. One is George Crabbe’s use of Goldsmith’s “DesertedVillage” as a foil for his own poetic project. In “The Village” (1783),Crabbe claims to describe the living conditions of the poor realistically: “I...

... of entering Arcadia, for there is no easy entrance such as Shakespeare’s earlier plays provide to his final romances, or the earlier books of The Faerie Queene to the pastoral world of Book VI. Sidney himself sets up elaborate barriers to his Arcadia. Only after long exercise of heroic virtue...