In this full-length critical study of a richly varied poetic convention, Ellen Lambert aims to define the particular literary experience common to those funeral laments we call pastoral elegies. She suggests that what distinguishes the pastoral elegist's vision of death from that of other funeral elegists is a setting rather than a doctrine: the special landscape in which he places his sorrow. The pastoral elegist brings to death the consolations of a sunlit world: intensification, clarification, simplification. Theocritus's first Idyll and the fifth Vergilian Eclogue are studied in detail...
In this full-length critical study of a richly varied poetic convention, Ellen Lambert aims to define the particular literary experience common to tho...
