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Rural life in eighteenth-century English poetry
John Goodridge
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Frontmatter
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Preface (page xi)
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Abbreviations, conventions, and textual note (page xiii)
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Introduction (page 1)
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Part I 'Hard labour we most chearfully pursue': three poets on rural work
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1 Thomson, Duck, Collier and rural realism (page 11)
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2 Initiations and peak times (page 23)
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3 Three types of labour (page 44)
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4 Compensations (page 58)
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5 Homecomings (page 71)
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Part II 'A pastoral convention and a ruminative mind': agricultural prescription in The Fleece, I
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6 Sheep and poetry (page 91)
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7 'Soil and clime' (page 103)
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8 Environment and heredity (page 125)
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9 The care of sheep (page 144)
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10 The shepherd's harvest (page 167)
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Appendix A 'Siluria' (page 181)
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Appendix B Eighteenth-century sheep breeds (page 183)
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Notes (page 188)
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Select bibliography (page 210)
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Index (page 222)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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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
- 9780511098475 (ebook)
- 9780521433815 (hardcover)
- 9780521604321 (paper)