Rural Life in Eighteenth-Century English Poetry

by John Goodridge

Book Overview

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"