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Rural life in eighteenth-century English poetry
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Rural life in eighteenth-century English poetry

Author: John Goodridge
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©1995.
Series: Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought, 27.
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This book examines the role of rural poetry, and self-taught poets, in eighteenth-century literary culture.

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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 Read more...

 
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