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Article: The two Arcadias of Sidney's two Arcadias.(Philip Sidney, The Old and New Arcadia)(Critical essay)
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- Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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Sir Philip Sidney's land of Arcadia has never been found very satisfactory as a setting for the events of his Arcadia. In particular, a chorus of voices has protested that Sidney's Arcadia is not pastoral enough, which seems strange when in most readers' minds Arcadia is a setting associated with the seemingly idyllic pastoral of, above all, Jacopo Sannazaro, the first person to use "Arcadia" as a title for a pastoral work. This equation of Arcadia with something like an idyllic pastoral setting has also been fostered by the interpretations of twentieth-century pastoral critics such as Bruno Snell, Renato Poggioli, Harry Levin, and T.G. Rosenmeyer. The conviction that ...
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