Table of Contents: Rural life in eighteenth-century English poetry /

Main Author:	Goodridge, John.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©1995.
Series:	Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ; 27
Subjects:	Virgil > Influence. Virgil. English poetry > History and criticism. > 18th century Rural conditions in literature. Literature and society > History > 18th century. > Great Britain Pastoral poetry, English > History and criticism. Agricultural laborers in literature. English poetry > Roman influences. Country life in literature. Agriculture in literature. Farm life in literature. POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English poetry. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Literature and society. Pastoral poetry, English. Great Britain.

Table of Contents:

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.