Acknowledgements Texts and abbreviations Introduction: 'Remedies themselves complain': pastoral poetry, pastoral criticism 1. Bringing it all back home: bucolic and heroic in Theocritus' Idylls 2. Si numquam fallit imago: Virgil's revision of Theocritus 3. Pastime and passion: the impasse in the Old Arcadia 4. Complaints themselves remedy: Marvell's lyrics as problem and solution Epilogue: farewell to pastoral: The Shepherd's Week Notes Works cited Index.
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