Rural life in eighteenth-century English poetry / John Goodridge.

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Goodridge, John, 1953-

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TextSeries: Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ; 27.Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, �1995.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 227 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0585268959
9780585268958
0511584903
9780511584909
0511000278
9780511000270

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rural life in eighteenth-century English poetry.DDC classification:

821/.509321734 20

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PR555.R87 G66 1995eb

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18.05

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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.

Summary: Recent research into a self-taught tradition of English rural poetry has begun to offer a radically new dimension to our view of the role of poetry in the literary culture of the eighteenth century. In this important new study John Goodridge offers a detailed reading of key rural poems of the period, examines the ways in which eighteenth-century poets adapted Virgilian Georgic models, and reveals an illuminating link between rural poetry and agricultural and folkloric developments. Goodridge compares poetic accounts of rural labour by James Thomson, Stephen Duck, and Mary Collier, and makes a close analysis of one of the largely forgotten didactic epics of the eighteenth century, John Dyer's The Fleece. Through an exploration of the purpose of rural poetry and how it relates to the real world, Goodridge breaks through the often brittle surface of eighteenth-century poetry, to show how it reflects the ideologies and realities of contemporary life.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-221) and index.

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Recent research into a self-taught tradition of English rural poetry has begun to offer a radically new dimension to our view of the role of poetry in the literary culture of the eighteenth century. In this important new study John Goodridge offers a detailed reading of key rural poems of the period, examines the ways in which eighteenth-century poets adapted Virgilian Georgic models, and reveals an illuminating link between rural poetry and agricultural and folkloric developments. Goodridge compares poetic accounts of rural labour by James Thomson, Stephen Duck, and Mary Collier, and makes a close analysis of one of the largely forgotten didactic epics of the eighteenth century, John Dyer's The Fleece. Through an exploration of the purpose of rural poetry and how it relates to the real world, Goodridge breaks through the often brittle surface of eighteenth-century poetry, to show how it reflects the ideologies and realities of contemporary life.

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