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The poets discussed in
Cultivating Peace imagine states of peace and war to be fundamentally and materially linked. In distinct ways, they dismantle the dream of the golden age renewed, proposing instead that peace must be sustained by constant labour.
List of contents
Introduction: The Arts of Peace
Chapter 1: 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
Chapter 2: 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
Chapter 3: Contingency: The Georgic Poetry of Anne Finch
A Virgilian Retreat
Finch and the Force of Fable
Chapter 4: 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"
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Melissa Schoenberger is an assistant professor in the department of English at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she specializes in Restoration and eighteenth-century poetry. Her articles have appeared in Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture 1660-1700 and Translation and Literature.
Summary
The poets discussed in Cultivating Peace imagine states of peace and war to be fundamentally and materially linked. In distinct ways, they dismantle the dream of the golden age renewed, proposing instead that peace must be sustained by constant labour.
