McCoy, Dorothy Schuchman. <br/><br/>
Tradition and Convention :  A Study of Periphrasis in English Pastoral Poetry From 1557-1715. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (292 pages) 
 - Studies in English Literature Series ;  v.5 .
 - Studies in English Literature Series .
<br/><br/>Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I. The Style, the Mode, and their Relationships -- A. What Periphrase Meant -- B. What Decorum Meant -- C. What Pastoral Meant -- II. Periphrasis with a Purpose -- A. Periphrase in Practice -- 1. Sir Philip Sidney: Periphrase in Arcadia -- 2. Edmund Spenser: Periphrase at the Service of Decorum in the Eclogues -- 3. Pastoral Language in Spenser's Imitators -- B. The Mechanics of Periphrase -- 1. Introductory and Transitional Periphrase -- 2. The Meaningful Use of Incidental Periphrase -- 3. Periphrases less Directly Connected with the Pastoral Mode -- C. Creation of the Artificial Scene through Conventions of Allegory and Periphrase -- D. The Relation of Periphrase to Pastoral Realism -- 1. The Relation of Periphrase and Pastoral Realism to Mixed Allegory -- 2. Sheep, and the Changing Effects of Conventional Allusion -- E. The Power of the Tradition and its Relation to Periphrase -- III. Periphrase without Purpose -- A. Pastoral Reality in a Metaphorical Field -- B. The Golden Pastoral -- C. Periphrastic Expression of Natural Sympathy -- D. Nymphs and Shepherds -- IV. Conclusion -- A. The Tradition -- B. Natural Sympathy, Divorced from Observation of Nature -- C. Realism through Comic Particularity -- D. Periphrase without System -- E. Convention -- Bibliography. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783111632445 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Pastoral poetry, English--History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR509.P3.M336 1965