04455nam 22007692 450 99624811720331620160330134300.00-511-09847-20-511-58490-30-511-00027-82027/heb07614(CKB)111004366725140(MH)006440964-3(SSID)ssj0000240110(PQKBManifestationID)11220914(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000240110(PQKBWorkID)10252483(PQKB)10993930(UkCbUP)CR9780511584909(MiAaPQ)EBC4640677(dli)HEB07614(MiU)MIU01000000000000007382382(EXLCZ)9911100436672514020090612d1995|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierRural life in eighteenth-century English poetry /John Goodridge[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,1995.1 online resource (xiv, 227 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ;27Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-60432-X 0-521-43381-9 Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-221) and index.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.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.Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ;27.English poetry18th centuryHistory and criticismRural conditions in literatureLiterature and societyGreat BritainHistory18th centuryPastoral poetry, EnglishHistory and criticismAgricultural laborers in literatureEnglish poetryRoman influencesCountry life in literatureAgriculture in literatureFarm life in literatureEnglish poetryHistory and criticism.Rural conditions in literature.Literature and societyHistoryPastoral poetry, EnglishHistory and criticism.Agricultural laborers in literature.English poetryRoman influences.Country life in literature.Agriculture in literature.Farm life in literature.821/.509321734Goodridge John1002326UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK996248117203316Rural life in eighteenth-century English poetry2300473UNISAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress