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British labouring-class nature poetry, 1730-1837

Title
British labouring-class nature poetry, 1730-1837 / Bridget Keegan.
Author
Keegan, Bridget.
Publication
Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

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Description
xi, 220 p.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • English poetry > 18th century > History and criticism
  • English poetry > 19th century > History and criticism
  • Nature in literature
  • Working class writings, English > History and criticism
  • Working class authors > Great Britain > Aesthetics
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-211) and index.
Contents
Introduction : 'a weed in nature's poesy' : British labouring-class nature poetry, 1730-1837 -- The fields his study : Robert Bloomfield's poetics of sustainability -- Return to the garden : James Woodhouse and polite cultivations -- Heavenly prospects : views from Clifton and Cliffden -- Writing against the current : Anne Wilson's Teisa and labouring-class river poetry -- What terms of art can nature's pow'rs express? : William Falconer and labouring-class poetry at sea -- And all is nakedness and fen : John Clare's wetlands -- Conclusion : the politics and poetics of wood : labouring-class poetry in the Victorian era.
ISBN
  • 0230536964 (alk. paper)
  • 9780230536968 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2008011807
OCLC
  • ocn215171997
  • SCSB-14170274
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library