The Southern Review, September 22nd, 2006
I came here for the view, and what is there to see? The place is still a place in progress--JOHN KOETHE
I WANT TO BE SPECIFIC HERE IN DEFINING "PASTORAL." I intend my references to be directed to pastoral as a noun rather than an adjective. The Pastoral. For indeed, there are also pastoral elegies, pastoral odes, pastoral dramas, pastoral satires, and so on. Especially in the Renaissance these modes were widely employed, and they overlapped, they leaked, one into the other. There are types of odes, for example, which operate by referencing the conventions of the pastoral, and it's fruitful ...
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