Rural life in eighteenth-century English poetry /

Recent research into a self-taught tradition of English rural poetry has begun to offer a radically new dimension to our view of the role of poetry in the literary culture of the eighteenth century. In this important new study John Goodridge offers a detailed reading of key rural poems of the period...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Goodridge, John, 1953-
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©1995.
Series:Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ; 27.
Subjects:
Virgil > Influence.
Virgil.
1700-1799
English poetry > 18th century > History and criticism.
Rural conditions in literature.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Pastoral poetry, English > History and criticism.
Agricultural laborers in literature.
English poetry > Roman influences.
Country life in literature.
Agriculture in literature.
Farm life in literature.
Poésie anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Conditions rurales dans la littérature.
Littérature et société > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Travailleurs agricoles dans la littérature.
Vie rurale dans la littérature.
Agriculture dans la littérature.
Vie à la ferme dans la littérature.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English poetry.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Literature and society.
Pastoral poetry, English.
Great Britain.
English poetry
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. 'Hard labour we most chearfully pursue': three poets on rural work. 1. Thomson, Duck, Collier and rural realism. 2. Initiations and peak times. 3. Three types of labour. 4. Compensations. 5. Homecomings
  • pt. II. 'A pastoral convention and a ruminative mind': agricultural prescription in The Fleece, I. 6. Sheep and poetry. 7. 'Soil and clime'. 8. Environment and heredity. 9. The care of sheep. 10. The shepherd's harvest
  • Appendix A 'Siluria'
  • Appendix B Eighteenth-century sheep breeds.

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