The Pastoral Initiation : An Ecology of Authorly Emergence from Plato to Milton

Author / Editor
Kuipers, Christopher Marvin.

Title
The Pastoral Initiation : An Ecology of Authorly Emergence from Plato to Milton

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 62: 158A, 2001.

Description
Authorial development from pastoral toward epic provides a universal creative basis, analogous to the human life span and close to nature. Assesses works by Plato, Virgil, Chaucer (BD), Milton, and Vladimir Nabokov (as lepidopterist).

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Book of the Duchess.