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Tag: Renaissance

199. (William Shakespeare)

As You Like It perplexes for many reasons, not least of which is a disproportionate structure, whose warps and excrescences … More

pastoral, Renaissance, Shakespeare

182. (Herman Melville)

Like many exciting periods in literary history, the middle of the nineteenth century saw in American authors intense and often … More

herman melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Renaissance

19. (John Milton)

The wryly and slyly passionate William Empson in Some Versions of Pastoral, at the end of the chapter on Milton and … More

Empson, Marvell, meter, Milton, nostalgia, pastoral, Renaissance, waste, Wordsworth
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