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Rural Life in Eighteenth-Century English Poetry

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1996
ISBN
0521433819, 9780521433815
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12882718 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought
Pages
244\244
Time added
2013-08-25 22:57:26

Description

Recent research into a self-taught tradition of English rural poetry has radically changed our view of the role of poetry in the literary culture of the eighteenth century. Here John Goodridge compares poetic accounts of rural labor by James Thomson, Stephen Duck and Mary Collier, and makes a close analysis of John Dyer's The Fleece. Goodridge goes on to explore the purpose of rural poetry and how it relates to the real world, and reveals an illuminating link between rural poetry and agricultural and folkloric developments of the time.

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