Rural Life in Eighteenth-Century English Poetry

Zusammenfassung John Goodridge explores the role of rural poetry in eighteenth-century literary culture. He examines the purpose of rural poetry! and how it relates to the real world! analyses accounts of rural labour by self-taught poets! and reveals unexpected links between rural poetry and agricultural and folkloric developments of the time. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part 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; Part II. 'A Pastoral Convention and a Ruminative Mind': Agricultural Prescription In The Fleece: 6. Sheep and poetry; 7. 'Soil and clime'; 8. Environment and heredity; 9. The care of sheep; 10. The shepherd's harvest; Bibliography; Index.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: John Goodridge, John (Nottingham Trent University) Goodridge
• Collaboration: Howard Erskine-Hill (Editeur), John J. Richetti (Editeur)
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 15.12.2005
• EAN: 9780521604321
• ISBN: 978-0-521-60432-1
• Pages: 244
• Thème: Cambridge Studies in Eighteent
• Catégorie: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique et littérature anglaises