Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the arts of peace
  • Mutability: cycles of war and peace
  • On mutability: Virgil's first lesson
  • Before Marvell: Georgic mutability in England
  • The trap of war and the map of paradise: Marvell's vision of peace
  • Translation: Virgil and Dryden in 1697
  • The English Virgil
  • Dryden's Georgics: "nor when the war is over, is it peace"
  • From peace to war: the Aeneis
  • Contingency: the Georgic poetry of Anne Finch
  • A Virgilian retreat
  • Finch and the force of fable
  • Imitation: the Georgics before and after 1713
  • John Philips and the inmate orchat
  • From didactic to descriptive
  • After Thomson: Christopher Smart, the hop-garden, and the end of Georgic peace
  • Conclusion: "at their hours of preparation."