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Why pastoral indeed. Why should what Paul Alpers calls a ‘notoriously conventional’ (79) form of imaginative expression be attracting the interest of writers and scholars in recent times? Alpers is gesturing towards Samuel Johnson’s itself notorious criticism of Milton’s Lycidas, but the statement puts its finger on the peculiar nature of the pastoral tradition, especially as seen from a contemporary perspective. Unlike tragedy or comedy, pastoral carries a particular (conventional) character set – shepherds or their equivalent – and always involves a particular (conventional) relationship to place. How does a set of quite specific – and unlikely – elements involving shepherds and song contests take hold and survive across the centuries in Western literature, art and music? How do we account for what W.W. Greg, in his remarkably Modernist work of criticism, Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama (1906), calls the ‘strange vitality’ (2) of the form? This collection of essays, drawn from papers delivered at a conference on ‘The Afterlives of Pastoral’ (University of Queensland 2014), is motivated by the desire to understand what pastoral might mean in contemporary writing and scholarship.

Walter W. Greg, Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama: A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England

English Literature in the Early Eighteenth Century (1700–1740); A History of English Drama; Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama Get access English Literature in the Early Eighteenth Century (1700–1740). By Bonamy DobréE. Oxford History of English Literature, VII. Oxford. 42s.A History of English Drama. By Allardyce Nicoll. Vol. V: Late Nineteenth Century Drama. 75s. Vol. VI: Alphabetical Catalogue of Plays, 1660–1900. 65s. Cambridge.Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama. By WALTER W. GREG. New York: Russell & Russell Inc. $7·50. Geoffrey Bullough Geoffrey Bullough Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar English: Journal of the English Association, Volume 13, Issue 73, Spring 1960, Pages 23–24, https://doi.org/10.1093/english/13.73.23 Published: 01 March 1960

English Pastoral HI: Pastoral Drama and Pastoral Poetry up to the 1650s

This contribution focuses on the specific Islamic authority figures that have been incorporated as ‘key figures’ in Belgian deradicalisation policies since 2015, in order to formulate a theological counter discourse. It asks firstly how these Muslim authority figures differentiate their position as ‘non-state’ actors manoeuvring a space of negotiation in secular power structures. Secondly, the contribution reflects on how they negotiate what Talal Asad has called ‘the secular episteme’ in their formulation of a theological counternarrative, as well as on how this relates to processes of ethical self-making and ‘apt’ authority formation. Rather than considering them as docile agents of the secular sovereign state, the concept of ‘border thinking’ is used to value the inter- and intra-traditional situatedness from where they attempt to renegotiate the horizons of expectations subscribed in hegemonic secularism.

Part 1 Pastoral in the Continental Renaissance: Virgil allegorized allusive and didactic pastoral - the neo-Latin, French and Italian eclogue art-pastoral - Boccaccio and Sannazaro pastoral and the Renaissance lyric. Part 2 English pastoral poetry: English pastoral before Spenser - Giles Fletcher, Barclay's eclogues, the Tudor lyric Shepheardes Calender the Elizabethan pastoral lyric the pastoral of allusion - Spenser, allusive pastoral from Peele to Quarles Drayton and his circle - Idea the Shepheards Garland, Poly-Olbion, Shepheards Pipe and other poems the diffusion of pastoral in the earlier 17th century. Part 3 The extension of pastoral - narrative, drama and spectacle: pastoral romance - the cyclic structure Cervantes - Galatea, Don Quixote as pastoral D'Urfe's L'Astree Sidney's Arcadia other English romance - Faerie Queene, Britannia's Pastorals pageants and entertainments English pastoral drama - Elizabethan drama, Shakespeare, Jacobean and Caroline drama more court spectacles and the Masque. Part 4 Last fruits - three versions of pastoral: Drayton's late pastorals Milton - Lycidas, Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained Andrew Marvell. Appendices: allusions in neo-Latin art-pastorals months and seasons in Shepheardes Calender Sidney and the Elizabethan pastoral lyric Protestantism in the Spenserian poets Protestant pastorale.