The Oaten Flute: Essays on Pastoral Poetry and the Pastoral Ideal

by Poggioli, Renato

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Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.: Harvard University Press, 1975. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good. This book, published posthumously, is a collection of essays from an unfinished book in which the author intended "to reconstruct and reinterpret the bucolic ideal as presented in the idyllic or quasi-idyllic literature of the past. The emphasis lies on the modern bucolic tradition, from the early Renaissance to the seventeenth and eighteenth century classicism and preromanticism...as well as to the conscious or unconscious survivals of the bucolic attitude in the literature of our times." In these essays the author develops many of the themes of the title essay on the psychological roots of the pastoral: its preoccupation with unrestrained sexuality, its incompatibility with Christian motifs, its masculine perspective, its rejection of bourgeois values; foreword by A. Bartlett Giametti (white cloth with brown lettering, slightly faded; dust jacket is shelf worn with a number of edge tears and small stain on the front cover, otherwise completely intact)

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