The sounds of early eighteenth-century pastoral: Handel, Pope, Gay, and Hughes
In the early eighteenth century the composer George Frideric Handel and the poets Alexander Pope, John Gay and John Hughes all engaged with the language and aesthetics of pastoral. Alexander Pope published his Pastorals in 1709, John Gay his Shepherd’s Week in 1714 and John Hughes the texts for six...
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Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
2017-06-01
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/erea/5741 |