Rural Life in Eighteenth-Century English Poetry
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:052160432X
ISBN13:9780521604321
Release Date:December 2005
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:244 Pages
Weight:0.80 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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