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Pseudo-anonymity is used as a means of understanding this late Renaissance inflexion ofthe pastoral genre,in that it permits the author to occupy an ideal space of achieved(yet still humble)virtue and to further express the neo-Stoic ideal of retreat from the socio-political demands of the world into an environment which is characterized by a harmonious experience of nature within a garden setting,geared not for economic or material production but whose purpose is to foment cultural and intellectual fecundity.Moreover,by the dislocation of the author-figure from a historical individual to an ideal type,the poem may itself offer this transformative process to the well-informed reader,providing them with a means of partaking through imaginative participation in the creativity of this Edenic locus amoenus,and thus leading them on,by its function as an access to the following works of poetry within the collection,to other poems that express the neo-Stoic pursuit,attainment and exhortation,of and to virtue.
Pseudo-anonymity is used as a means of understanding this late Renaissance inflexion of the pastoral genre, in that it permits permits the author to occupy an ideal space of achieved (yet still humble) virtue and to further express the neo-Stoic ideal of retreat from the socio-political demands of the world into an environment which is characterized by a harmonious experience of nature within a garden setting, geared not for economic or material production but whose purpose is to foment cultural and intellectual fecundity. Moreover, by the dislocation of the author -figure from a historical individual to an ideal type, the poem may itself offer this transformative process to the well-informed reader, providing them with a means of partaking through imaginative participation in the creativity of this Edenic locus amoenus, and thus leading them on , by its function as an access to the following works of poetry within the collection, to other poems that express the neo-Stoic pursuit, attainment and exhortation, of and for virtue.