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1	The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia more books like this by Sir Philip Sidney, Maurice Evans (Editor) add to wishlist Basilus, a foolish old Duke, consults an oracle as he imperiously wishes to know the future, but he is less than pleased with what he learns. To escape the oracle's horrific prophecies about his family and kingdom, he withdraws into pastoral retreat with his wife and two daughters. When a pair of wandering princes fall in love with the princesses ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.00! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Some Versions of Pastoral more books like this by William Empson add to wishlist Empson's second critical work, initially published in 1935, followed his groundbreaking, rather prodigious work SEVEN TYPES OF AMBIGUITY. SOME VERSIONS OF PASTORAL is engaged with then emerging Marxist theories of literature, and analyzes the role of the poet and the proletariat. Work by Dryden, Shakespeare, Middleton, Marvell, and many others is ... see all copies from $3.75! new only from $8.77! \| first editions
3	The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia: The Old Arcadia more books like this by Sir Philip Sidney, Katherine Duncan-Jones (Editor) add to wishlist Written at the estate of the Countess of Pembroke, this work has been called "the most original work of English prose fiction produced before the 18th century" (William Ringler). "Arcadia" presents country life according to the Greek ideal, a world of shepherds and nymphs and an idyllic landscape. A melodrama about mistaken identity and love ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.01! \| SVS
4	As bread that is broken more books like this by Peter G. van Breemen add to wishlist The author of this stirring book shows how we (like bread) are consumed in the gift of ourselves to our fellow men and women. We die in order to rise to new life. see all copies from $25.00! SVS
5	Pastoral more books like this by Terry Gifford add to wishlist Terry Gifford clarifies the different uses of pastoral, and traces the history of the genre from its classical origins in the poetic dialogues of supposed shepherds, to Elizabethan dramas such as The Winters Tale , through the pastoral poetry of Pope, Wordsworth and Clare, to the more recent rural novels and contemporary American nature writing. ... see all copies from $7.19! new only from $19.72! \| SVS
6	A Continuation of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia more books like this by Anna Weamys, Patrick Colborn Cullen (Editor), Susanne Woods (Foreword by) add to wishlist Anne Weamys's A Continuation of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia is a woman's contribution to one of the dominant genres of her sex's readership in the seventeenth century: the heroic romance. Part of the considerable power and appeal of this work is its reduction of the heroic romance to a smaller scale. In its shorter length and its comparatively ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.71! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Woman at the Well more books like this by Adrian L. van Kaam add to wishlist see all copies from $7.50!
8	What is Pastoral? more books like this by Paul Alpers add to wishlist In this work, the literary historian, Paul Alpers, argues that pastoral is based upon a fundamental fiction - that the lives of shepherds or other socially humble figures represent the lives of human beings in general. Ranging from Virgil's "Eclogues" to Sarah Orne Jewett's "The Country of the Pointed Firs", from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Hardy ... see all copies from $18.00! new only from $18.99! \| SVS
9	Nature Writing more books like this by Don Scheese add to wishlist In this comprehensive study of the genre, Don Scheese traces its evolution from the pastoralism evident in the natural history observations of Aristotle and the poetry of Virgil to current American writers. He documents the emergence of the modern form of nature writing as a reaction to industrialization. Scheese's personal observations of natural ... see all copies from $6.74! new only from $10.00! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia more books like this by Sir Philip Sidney add to wishlist Written at the estate of the Countess of Pembroke, this work has been called "the most original work of English prose fiction produced before the 18th century" (William Ringler). "Arcadia" presents country life according to the Greek ideal, a world of shepherds and nymphs and an idyllic landscape. A melodrama about mistaken identity and love ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $30.36! \| SVS
11	The Covntesse of Pembrokes Arcadia more books like this by Sir Philip Sidney add to wishlist Written at the estate of the Countess of Pembroke, this work has been called "the most original work of English prose fiction produced before the 18th century" (William Ringler). "Arcadia" presents country life according to the Greek ideal, a world of shepherds and nymphs and an idyllic landscape. A melodrama about mistaken identity and love ... see all copies from $4.07! new only from $31.98! \| SVS
12 view cover	Uneven Land: Nature and Agriculture in American Writing more books like this by Stephanie Sarver add to wishlist "Uneven Land" explores the ambiguous conceptual position of agriculture and nature in American literature during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hamlin Garland, Frank Norris, William Ellsworth Smythe, and Liberty Hyde Bailey, Stephanie L. Sarver reveals a range of views about ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $6.00!
13	Hardy: A Collection of Critical Essays more books like this by Albert J Guerard (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
14	Sergei Aksakov and Russian Pastoral more books like this by Andrew R. Durkin add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.35! \| first editions \| SVS
15	The Text of Sidney's Arcadian World more books like this by Michael McCanles add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
16	The Pastoral mode : a casebook more books like this by Bryan Loughrey add to wishlist see all copies from $42.48!
17	The Rural Tradition: A Study of the Non-Fiction Prose Writers of the English Countryside more books like this by William J Keith add to wishlist see all copies from $4.08! first editions
18 view cover	The Virgilian Pastoral Tradition: From the Renaissance to the Modern Era more books like this by Nancy Lindheim add to wishlist This book contributes significantly to the ongoing dialogue about the scope and meaning of pastoral as a genre, as Nancy Lindheim argues for a more culturally and aesthetically complex awareness of what the term has meant in the course of Western literature. Rather than assuming that pastoral follows a course charted by previous commentators - ... see all copies from $25.05! new only from $84.76!
19	Pastoral more books like this by Peter V Marinelli add to wishlist see all copies from $2.12! first editions
20 view cover	Death and the Arc of Mourning in African American Literature more books like this by Anissa Janine Wardi add to wishlist An examination of the preponderance of death and funerary and mourning rituals in the African American expressive tradition. Anissa Wardi argues that the American South represents an unmarked graveyard that is simultaneously the sacred locus of the ancestor and a memorial to their suffering. see all copies from $25.99! new only from $59.70! \| first editions
21	Pastoral Forms and Attitudes more books like this by Harold E Toliver add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
22	A World by Itself: The Pastoral Moment in Cooper's Fiction more books like this by H Daniel Peck, Daniel H Peck add to wishlist see all copies from $4.08! signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Thomas Hardy's Vision of Wessex more books like this by Simon Gatrell add to wishlist Hardy's Wessex has been much written about, but all these guidebooks and academic studies are based on Wessex as it stood when Hardy, at the age of 72, had completed his transformation of the place. When he began writing in the 1860s, Wessex wasn't even a gleam in his eye. This book traces each step in the evolution of his vision of Wessex in his ... see all copies from $60.00! new only from $60.00! \| first editions
24	Called by Name more books like this by Peter G. Van Breemen add to wishlist see all copies from $3.60! first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Love in a Green Shade: Idyllic Romances Ancient to Modern more books like this by Richard F Hardin add to wishlist "Love in a green shade" examines for the first time in depth the reception history of Daphnis and Chloe in literature, beginning with its Renaissance rediscovery and working through its various transformations in English, French, Spanish, and other literatures. At the same time, Richard F. Hardin launches a groundbreaking exploration of the ... see all copies from $9.25! new only from $9.25!

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