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Rural life in eighteenth-century English poetry

John Goodridge
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Preface (page xi)
  • Abbreviations, conventions, and textual note (page xiii)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • Part I 'Hard labour we most chearfully pursue': three poets on rural work
    • 1 Thomson, Duck, Collier and rural realism (page 11)
    • 2 Initiations and peak times (page 23)
    • 3 Three types of labour (page 44)
    • 4 Compensations (page 58)
    • 5 Homecomings (page 71)
  • Part II 'A pastoral convention and a ruminative mind': agricultural prescription in The Fleece, I
    • 6 Sheep and poetry (page 91)
    • 7 'Soil and clime' (page 103)
    • 8 Environment and heredity (page 125)
    • 9 The care of sheep (page 144)
    • 10 The shepherd's harvest (page 167)
  • Appendix A 'Siluria' (page 181)
  • Appendix B Eighteenth-century sheep breeds (page 183)
  • Notes (page 188)
  • Select bibliography (page 210)
  • Index (page 222)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
MP 96.4 (May 1999): 530-534 http://www.jstor.org/stable/439019
YES 28 (1998): 320-321 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3508792
Citable Link
Published: c1995
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780511098475 (ebook)
  • 9780521433815 (hardcover)
  • 9780521604321 (paper)
Series
  • Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature
Subject
  • Literature
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