This - the outcome of an incredulous google search on "Prynne pastoral" -
seems germane:
http://jacketmagazine.com/12/corl-by-kenn.html
I should like to see the notion that Prynne and the pastoral have something
to do with each other worked out a little further - I think I can guess a
little of how it might go, but it's still a bit of a teaser.
Dominic
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Sent: 20 November 2003 18:16
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Subject: Re: pastoral
Being a newcomer here I am a little diffident of speech but I would observe
that the use of the term 'pastoral' is somewhat problematic with respect to
contemporary writing, the term has perhaps been extended beyond the
boundaries of its meaning. I think here of the use of the term 'Cambridge
Pastoralists' to cover poets as diverse as John Wilkinson, Peter Riley, Mike
Haslam and (even) Jeremy Prynne. The mental association of. say, Wilkinson
with frolicking nymphs and tuneful shepherds is somewhat disjunct.
JN
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