A Companion to Pastoral Poetry of the English Renaissance

by Sukanta Chaudhuri

This volume is an essential supplement to Pastoral poetry of the English Renaissance: An anthology (2016). The full-length Introduction examines English Renaissance pastoral against the history of the mode from antiquity to the present, with its multifarious themes and social affinities. The study covers many genres - eclogue, lyric, georgic, country-house poem, ballad, romantic epic, prose romance - and major practitioners - Theocritus, Virgil, Sidney,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526126982
• ISBN13: 9781526126986
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.6"