The Oaten Flute: Essays on Pastoral Poetry and the Pastoral Idea by Poggioli, Renato, 1907-1963

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975. Hard Cover. vi, 340 p., illus.; 24 cm. A. Bartlett Giamatti edited the manuscript left after Poggioli's death. Contents: The oaten flute; Pastoral love; The funeral elegy; Milton's Lycidas; The Christian pastoral; Dante Poco tempo silvano: a pastoral oasis in the Commedia; The poetics of the pastoral; The pastoral of the self; Pastoral and Soledad; Naboth's vineyard: the pastoral view of the social order; Arkadisch frei sei unser Glück!: Goethe and the pastoral; Gogol's Old-fashioned landowners: an inverted eclogue; Tolstoy's Domestic happiness: beyond pastoral love; L'Heure du Berger: Mallarmé's grand eclogue. Stock#45563. Vg / dj vg.