The Pipes of Pan: Intertextuality and Literary Filiation in the Pastoral Tradition from Theocritus to Milton
Departing from conventional views of the pastoral genre as an Arcadian escape from urban sophistication, The Pipes of Pan highlights its genesis in the allusive and polemical literary cultures of Alexandria and Rome. Both cities placed great emphasis upon learned invocation and reformulation of poetic models. The pastoral metaphor provided Theocritus and Vergil with tools for representing the contests and confrontations of poets and genres, the exchange of ideas among poets, and poets'...
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Examines the pastoral tradition as an interconnected mega-poem
AbbreviationsIntroduction1Ch. 1Poetic Succession and the Genesis of Alexandrian Bucolic19Ch. 2Vergil's Revisionary Progression45Ch. 3In Vergil's Shadow: Later Latin Pastoral140Ch. 4Tityrus in the Middle Ages213Ch. 5Renaissance Refashionings: The Future as Fragment of the Past247Conclusion342Bibliography351Subject Index371Index of Passages Cited381
