Pastoral theory
editIn the past four hundred years, a range of writers have worked on theorizing the nature of pastoral. These include Friedrich Schiller,[1] George Puttenham,[2] William Empson,[3] Frank Kermode,[4] Raymond Williams,[5] Renato Poggioli,[6] Annabel Patterson,[7] Paul Alpers,[8] and Ken Hiltner.[9]
== References ==
- ^ Friedrich Schiller, On Naive and Sentimental Poetry (1795).
- ^ George Puttenham, Arte of English Poesie (1589).
- ^ William Empson, Some Versions of Pastoral. (1935).
- ^ Frank Kermode, English Pastoral Poetry: From the Beginnings to Marvell. (1952).
- ^ Raymond Williams, The Country and the City. Oxford U P, 1973.
- ^ Renato Poggioli, The Oaten Flute: Essays on Pastoral Poetry and the Pastoral Ideal. Harvard U P, 1975.
- ^ Annabel Patterson. Pastoral and ideology : Virgil to Valéry. U of California P, 1987.
- ^ Paul Alpers, What is Pastoral? U of Chicago P, 1986.
- ^ Ken Hiltner, What Else is Pastoral?: Renaissance Literature and the Environment. Cornell U P, 2011.