Note 7 — VI. THYRSIS
Reading edition
In the more-or-less autobiographical novel, Love’s Pilgrimage, it is related of Corydon and Thyrsis that they did carry out this idealistic plan for a time after they were married. That version is scarcely more than a dramatic heightening of some of the facts, and the fiction does make clear the underlying neurotic conflict in the young poet’s mind.