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 rura…
Investigates the themes of recollection and commemoration in a new reading that engages with critical work on memory.
Investigates the themes of recollection and commemoration in a new reading that engages with critical work on memory.
"Beginning in outer space and ending up among the atoms, Bucolic Ecology illustrates how these poems repeatedly turn to the natural world in order to define themselves and their place in the literary tradition. It argues that the Eclogues find there both a sequence of analogies …
