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Pastoral Literature

Pastoral Literature. An Introduction. What television programmes can you think of that present an idealised version of ‘country living’?. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS7Z1q9hL2I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ELKiuELTrc&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDZFQZb4kPM

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Pastoral Literature

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  1. Pastoral Literature An Introduction

  2. What television programmes can you think of that present an idealised version of ‘country living’? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS7Z1q9hL2I • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ELKiuELTrc&feature=related • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDZFQZb4kPM • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmo8EzGtOmw&feature=related • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUpBTVilhzY

  3. Listen to four writers discussing pastoral literature: • http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20060706.shtml

  4. Now read this extract from Marlowe’s ‘The Passionate Shepherd to his Love’: Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods or steepy mountain yields.And we will sit upon the rocks, Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals.

  5. This is thought by many to be the crowning example of Elizabethan pastoral poetry. • The traditions of pastoral poetry, literature and drama can be traced back to the third century BC and have principally offered a conventionalised picture of rural life, the naturalness and innocence of which is seen to contrast favourably with the corruption and artificialities of city and court life.

  6. Pastoral literature deals with tensions between nature and art, the real and the ideal, the actual and the mythical, and although pastoral works have been written from the point of view of shepherds or rustics, they have often been penned by highly sophisticated, urban poets and playwrights.

  7. What impression of pastoral life do you get from Marlowe’s poem?

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