ACLS Humanities E-Book: Rural life in eighteenth-century English poetry

Rural life in eighteenth-century English poetry

Goodridge, John.

Year: c1995.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

Preface

Abbreviations, conventions, and textual note

Introduction

Part 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

Part 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

Notes

Select bibliography

Index

reviews

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Title:

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

Author:

Goodridge, John

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Rural life in eighteenth-century English poetry : John Goodridge.
Goodridge, John
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, c1995.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.07614

Subject Headings:

• Virgil -- Influence
• 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

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