- The Pastoral

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Racing this central theme of Western art from its classical origins (Hesiod, Theocritus, Virgil) to its flowering in 16th and 17th century English poetry (Spenser, Sidney, Shakespeare, Marvell, Herbert, Milton), to later versions in Romantic and Environmentalist poets. Final research papers will explore Pastoral concerns in such 20th and 21st century writers as Hardy, Frost, Grahame, Snyder, Oliver, Merwin, Gander, et alia.