Locus Amoenus

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Francis Petrarch, Sonnets to Laura,no. 333 (Ite, rime dolenti, al duro sasso), transi. Morris Bishop. In these strophes, Camões speaks of the first and second Viriathus and Quintus Sertorius, the people of Lusus, a people predestined by the Fates to accomplish great deeds. Jupiter says that their history proves it because, having emerged victorious against the Moors and Castilians, this tiny nation has gone on to discover new worlds and impose its law in the concert of the nations. At the end of the poem, on the Island of Love, the fictional finale to the glorious tour of Portuguese history, Camões writes that the fear once expressed by Bacchus has been confirmed: that the Portuguese would become gods.

Peter L. Smith, ‘“ Lentus in Umbra”: A Symbolic Pattern in Vergil’s “Eclogues”’, Phoenix 19.4 (1965), 303. Smith states, ‘shade, in brief, was a rather emotional concept, which might carry either positive or negative connotations’. The locus amoenus: the strophes that come after strophe 52 of Canto IX, and some of the main parts that appear from strophe 68 to 95 describe the scenery where the love encountered between the sailors and the Nymphs take place. The poet also talks about the fauna that live there and of fruits produced instantly. It is portrayed as a paradise. Señalamos aquí dos ejemplos pictóricos ––de los tantos existentes–– en torno a este tópico: Paisaje con arcoíris, de Rubens; y Paisaje en Chaponval, de Camile Pissarro.

Helen Cooper, Pastoral: Medieval into Renaissance (Ipswich, NJ: Brewer; Rowman & Littlefield, 1977); Thomas G. Rosenmeyer, The Green Cabinet: Theocritus and the European Pastoral Lyric (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969).

Baelsar's Wall - Cape Westwind - Castellum Velodyna - Castrum Abania - Castrum Aquilonis - Castrum Centri - Castrum Fluminis - Castrum Lacus Litore - Castrum Marinum - Castrum Meridianum - Castrum Occidens - Castrum Oriens - Castrum Solus - Specula Imperiatoris - The PraetoriumMany Shakespearean critics discuss points of similarity with Ovid, and, like Jonathan Bate, I suggest that Ovid and Shakespeare share ‘an interest above all else in human psychology, particularly the psychology of desire in its many varieties; the transformations wrought by the extremes of emotion’. 1 The locus amoenus is an example of a textual space depicting an idealized landscape which is used to facilitate exploration of the boundaries of human emotion and desire. Despite differences between Metamorphoses and Titus Andronicus, I aim to show that the idea driving Shakespeare’s sinister revision of the locus amoenus is, in fact, Ovidian in origin. The concept of a sometimes ambiguous ‘pleasant place’ in Ovid’s practice acts specifically as a topos through which to explore emotional excess leading to fundamental, often violent, transformations of the self and indeed the pleasant place. After briefly exploring how Ovid reinvigorated the locus amoenus I turn to Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, 2 where the connotations of a wood, superficially ‘ amoenus’ but in fact ‘ violens’, are radically remodelled and even undercut. The setting provides Shakespeare with a dramatic context in which the raw, defining antagonisms and conflicts pervading the play are clarified, come to a head and are augmented. Keywords For more information, see Evett, David. "Paradice's Only Map": The "Topos" of the "Locus Amoenus" and the Structure of Marvell's "Upon Appleton House." PMLA. 85.3(1970):504-513. The most prevalent mature trees at Tifft are shallow rooting and short-lived, making them vulnerable to strong winds coming off Lake Erie. In an effort to diversify and protect the landscape and tree canopy at the Preserve, more than 2,000 long-lived native species were planted between 2009 and 2015 to enhance tree regeneration and to provide a more diverse and sustainable ecosystem. These trees are young and vulnerable, especially to deer and beaver, and require special protection in the form of enclosures surrounding the trunks. Medieval specialist Catherine Clarke to lead new IHR research centre". University of London . Retrieved 3 October 2019.