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... pastoral genre by combining it with another . ( Combinatio was a skill of the rhetorician . ) He laid Vergil's ... pastoral , as Renaissance scholars did for a classical text . ) The shepherd of traditional pastoral poetry was everyman ...
... pastoral genre by combining it with another . ( Combinatio was a skill of the rhetorician . ) He laid Vergil's ... pastoral , as Renaissance scholars did for a classical text . ) The shepherd of traditional pastoral poetry was everyman ...
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... pastoral are linked by hint or name - conceit to particular living instances . The friend is Hobbinol / Harvey , critic of the poet - shepherd's singing . Two bishop - shepherds suggest the Bishop of Rochester ( Roffy ) and Grindal ...
... pastoral are linked by hint or name - conceit to particular living instances . The friend is Hobbinol / Harvey , critic of the poet - shepherd's singing . Two bishop - shepherds suggest the Bishop of Rochester ( Roffy ) and Grindal ...
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... pastoral could not only descend to satire , it could ' where good occasion offered of higher vein and more Heroicall argument ' - rise to eulogy of the ruler , treat of affairs of Church or state , express the aspirations of love , or ...
... pastoral could not only descend to satire , it could ' where good occasion offered of higher vein and more Heroicall argument ' - rise to eulogy of the ruler , treat of affairs of Church or state , express the aspirations of love , or ...
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