The decline of the neo-classical pastoral 1680-1730 : a study in Theocritean and Virgilian influence

The classical pastoral was an accredited genre in antiquity usually associated with a series of contrasts between the country and the city or between the supposedly natural and artificial worlds. With the decline in allegorical writing, however, the Restoration's neo-classical translators, espe...

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Main Author: Wood, Nigel Paul
Published: Durham University 1983
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.235368