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Cultivating peace : the Virgilian Georgic in English, 1650-1750 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Schoenberger, Melissa, 1987- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2019]
Series:	Transits (Bucknell University)
Subjects:	Virgil. > Georgica. Virgil > Influence. English poetry > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism. English poetry > 18th century > History and criticism. Peace in literature.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: the arts of peace
Mutability: cycles of war and peace
On mutability: Virgil's first lesson
Before Marvell: Georgic mutability in England
The trap of war and the map of paradise: Marvell's vision of peace
Translation: Virgil and Dryden in 1697
The English Virgil
Dryden's Georgics: "nor when the war is over, is it peace"
From peace to war: the Aeneis
Contingency: the Georgic poetry of Anne Finch
A Virgilian retreat
Finch and the force of fable
Imitation: the Georgics before and after 1713
John Philips and the inmate orchat
From didactic to descriptive
After Thomson: Christopher Smart, the hop-garden, and the end of Georgic peace
Conclusion: "at their hours of preparation."