Before Pastoral

Before Pastoral: Theocritus and the Ancient Tradition of Bucolic Poetry is a 1983 book about Theocritus by the classicist David M. Halperin.

Before Pastoral: Theocritus and the Ancient Tradition of Bucolic Poetry
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AuthorDavid M. Halperin
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectTheocritus
PublisherYale University Press
Publication date
1983
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages289
ISBN978-0300025828

Reception

Before Pastoral was praised by the literary scholars Camille Paglia,[1] and Timothy Saunders, who writes that it "still offers the most finely argued case for upholding the distinction between the two categories of 'bucolic' and 'pastoral'."[2]

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References

  1. Paglia 1993. p. 171.
  2. Saunders 2006. p. 3.

Bibliography

Books
  • Paglia, Camille (1993). Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-017209-2.
  • Saunders, Timothy (2006). Skoie, Mathilde; Velázquez, Sonia Bjørnstad (eds.). Pastoral and the Humanities: Arcadia Re-inscribed. Bristol Phoenix Press. ISBN 978-1904675587.
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