ARTS1031 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Welterweight, Theocritus, Bier
16 Oct 2018
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13/08/18 pastoral elegy and john milton"s lycidas (1638) This poem exemplifies the pastoral genre, as well as an elegy. A poem of mourning, in which you pay tribute to someone who is deceased. 1632 receives ma from university of cambridge (learned man, educated) Mid 16th century - english civil war - interior turmoil - factional differences between the royalists and the puralists - milton was involved in this politics. Milton published a series of polemical tracts attacking corruption in the anglican church and als defending divorce. As a genre, mode, collections of symbols, attitudes and forms. Literature associated with shepherds, tending sheep and goats - deals with the idealised lives of shepherds. Pastoral mode - at the time milton was writing, it is in fashion to write in this mode and imitate this mode. Edmund spenser, bernard le bouyer fontenelle, sir philip sidney. Leisure of the ancient shepherds, desiring some diversion - they write and sing.
