Category: Poetry

A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717)

Purney, Thomas, 1695-1727?; Wasserman, Earl R. (Earl Reeves), 1913-1973 [Author of introduction, etc.]· 2 chapters· 16,046 words

I should but tire the Reader, if I endeavour'd to prove that Pastoral does require the Manners, or Characters to be preserved. If our Method of ordering Pastoral be admitted, the Necessity thereof will be easily perceived. But If any one prefer's the ordinary Method, I must te...