The Penguin Book of English Pastoral VerseJohn Barrell, John Bull Allen Lane, 1974 - 539 pages |
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... poetry raises problems peculiar to itself over whether or not to modernize the text , and it is a problem that we have largely allowed to solve itself . Many of the early pastoral poems are written in a language archaic not only to our ...
... poetry raises problems peculiar to itself over whether or not to modernize the text , and it is a problem that we have largely allowed to solve itself . Many of the early pastoral poems are written in a language archaic not only to our ...
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... poetry is that , by the very nature of its success , it was incapable of influencing the later poetry of rural life . John Clare was the son of an agricultural labourer ; Stephen Duck , Robert Bloomfield , and a number of lesser ...
... poetry is that , by the very nature of its success , it was incapable of influencing the later poetry of rural life . John Clare was the son of an agricultural labourer ; Stephen Duck , Robert Bloomfield , and a number of lesser ...
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... poetry that he had inherited . Only a few of his poems are directly political ; but those he wrote between about 1822 and 1832 , when he was moved from Helpston , represent a far more radical attack on the presuppositions on which both ...
... poetry that he had inherited . Only a few of his poems are directly political ; but those he wrote between about 1822 and 1832 , when he was moved from Helpston , represent a far more radical attack on the presuppositions on which both ...
Contents
Glossary | 10 |
Egloga Tertia | 23 |
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY IS5486 | 37 |
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ALEXANDER POPE AMETAS AMORET Arcadia beneath birds breath Ceres Chaos-like charms Colin COMUS Corydon court dear delight doth dwell earth Eclogue ev'ry eyes fair feast feed fields fleece flocks flowers Garden gentle Georgic Golden Age grace green groves hand happy hast hath head hear heart Heaven Helpston hills innocence John Clare labour land lawn live look Lord Lycidas maid MELLIFLEUR mind morn Muse nature never night nymph o'er pain Pastoral Pastoral Poetry PERDITA PERIGOT pipe plain pleasure poem poet poetry poor praise pride rich rise round rural rustic scene SECOND SHEPHERD shade sheep shepherds sing smiling soft song soul Spring Stephen Duck strain stream swain sweet thee THENOT Theocritus things thou thought toil town trees unto vale version of Pastoral village wild winds woods youth