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Rural Life in Eighteenth-Century English Poetry (Paperback, New ed)
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Rural Life in Eighteenth-Century English Poetry (Paperback, New ed)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought
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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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