Changing Landscapes: Anti-Pastoral Sentiment in the English Renaissance

In Changing Landscapes, Peter Lindenbaum reveals the growing frustration of Sidney, Shakespeare, Milton, and other writers of their time with the ideal realm--the carefree Eden, the still-reigning Golden Age--that seemed to dominate pastoral poetry. Impelled by an awareness of human conflict with the world and of the forces that beleaguer from within, these writers proposed, in the guise of the pastoral, a vision of community, individual responsibility, and civic duty in a fallen world.

Author: Peter Lindenbaum
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 09/01/2016
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9780820339870

About the Author
Peter Lindenbaum (1938-2010) was a professor of English at Indiana University. He was founder of the Indiana University History of the Book and Renaissance Studies programs.