AP/HUMA 4100 6.00

The Pastoral Lyric Tradition from Ancient Greece to Early Modernity

This course explores the tradition of pastoral lyric poetry from the world of Ptolemaic Alexandria to late medieval and renaissance Europe, studying the pastoral poetry of, among others, Theocritus, Vergil, Moduin of Autun, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Mantuan, Spenser, Milton and Marvell. The course interrogates the poetics of pastoral, the dynamics of tradition, and classicism and classical reception to the seventeenth century.