ANQ, March 22nd, 2004
When Raleigh responded to the "soft" pastorals of Marlows "Passionate Shepherd to His Love," he presented the data of "hard" pastoral--the mutability and discomfort that the real cycle of seasons offers in place of veer assiduous: "The flowers doe fade, and wanton fields / To wayward winter reckoning yields" (40). This sober response to Marlows poem is almost as famous as the text it addresses, but (so far as I can tell) a similar--although more oblique--response by a German poet has not been noted. Because Heinrich Hein was familiar enough with the literature of Renaissance England to name ...
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