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Underground Rivers - University of New Mexico

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Chapter 28 -- Et In Arcadia Ego<br />

More's Utopia (1516), however -- "Arcadia" did not connote human progress, but rather the<br />

spontaneous result <strong>of</strong> life lived naturally.<br />

The theme <strong>of</strong> Arcadia and its underground River Alpheus, in fact, became so prominent in<br />

Renaissance scholarship that the Academies were known as "Arcadians."<br />

Following is an assortment <strong>of</strong> period literature set in -- and thus helping establish the idealized<br />

nature <strong>of</strong> -- Arcadia.<br />

Jacopo Sannazaro<br />

Arcadia (1502)<br />

Torquato Tasso<br />

Jerusalem Delivered (1581)<br />

Jorge de Montemayor<br />

Diana, (c. 1559)<br />

Philip Sidney<br />

Countess <strong>of</strong> Pembroke's<br />

Arcadia (1590)<br />

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Remy Belleau<br />

Bergerieby (1572)<br />

Lope de Vega<br />

La Arcadia (1598)<br />

We will visited John Milton's Paradise Lost (1658) in Chapter 16, <strong>Underground</strong> <strong>Rivers</strong> in English<br />

Fiction, but here we'll mention his poem "Arcades" (1633) which drew upon the Alpheus story,<br />

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