Abstract
E VER SINCE WILLIAM EMPSONsuggested that old pastoral ... was felt to imply a beautiful relation between rich and poor, there has been interest in pastoral as a kind of social myth.' But if pastoral reinforces illusions of class harmony and thus assuages the anxiety and guilt of dominant classes, as some critics have suggested,2 it becomes a deliberately promulgated, self-consciously false vision,a specious, self-interested distortion of truth.' Such a view is irrelevant or simply wrong to most students of pastoral, who might be supposed as saying, with Sydney: the [pastoral] poet nothing
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