The Ancient Pastoral Tradition

Vivaldi,
Beethoven
 Beatles,
Canned Heat

Bible, Genesis 1
Song of Songs

Virgil, Eclogue 1

Ovid, The golden Age

 

Renaissance Pastoral

Marlowe, "The Passionate Shepherd",
Ralegh, "The Nymph's Reply"
Shakespeare, Duke Senior's speech
John Milton, The Creation, from Paradise Lost 7. 210-534
Andrew Marvell, "The Garden"

"The Shepherd's Philosophy"

Youth Against Age

Romanticism and Nature 

lecture notes

 Wordsworth , selected poems
"April," from John Clare, The Shepherd's Calender
Schubert, Die Schoene Muellerin

Emerson: Nature [read Introduction, chapter 1 and chapter 3]