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... pastoral " rules " in an essay translated into English by Thomas Creech in 1684 as Rapin's Discourse of Pastorals . Rapin's views were shared by Walsh , Dryden , and Pope . This " neo - classic " theory contended that the pastoral ...
... pastoral " rules " in an essay translated into English by Thomas Creech in 1684 as Rapin's Discourse of Pastorals . Rapin's views were shared by Walsh , Dryden , and Pope . This " neo - classic " theory contended that the pastoral ...
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... pastoral form which he had first mastered . Whatever his reasons , he continued experimenting with it , adapting the tradi- tion to more complex subject matter and purpose in " Messiah " and in " Windsor Forest . " Whether he succeeded ...
... pastoral form which he had first mastered . Whatever his reasons , he continued experimenting with it , adapting the tradi- tion to more complex subject matter and purpose in " Messiah " and in " Windsor Forest . " Whether he succeeded ...
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... pastoral : “ First in these Fields I try the Sylvan Strains . " Pope was never again to use the pastoral to depict a possible Golden Age for mankind . In all his later work he used the pastoral Golden Age for satiric purposes to show ...
... pastoral : “ First in these Fields I try the Sylvan Strains . " Pope was never again to use the pastoral to depict a possible Golden Age for mankind . In all his later work he used the pastoral Golden Age for satiric purposes to show ...
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