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| Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Goodridge, John. Rural life in eighteenth-century English poetry. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995 (DLC) 95007156 (OCoLC)32133805 |
| Named Person: | Virgil |
| Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John Goodridge |
| ISBN: | 0585268959 9780585268958 |
| OCLC Number: | 45731284 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 227 p.) |
| 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. |
| Series Title: | Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought, 27. |
| Responsibility: | John Goodridge. |
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'Goodridge provides a fascinating interdisciplinary approach to his subject which other critics of the rural tradition in literature would benefit from following.' John Clare Society Journal 'Although this is a book which is specialised, it is of much interest and importance to those studying rural poetry, rural labour history or agricultural history.' John Clare Society Journal Read more...
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- 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.
- Virgil -- Influence.
- POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
- Electronic books.

