Writing the poetry of place in Britain, 1700-1807 : self in landscape /
This book discusses the intrusion, often inadvertent, of personal voice into the poetry of landscape in Britain, 1700-1807. It argues that strong conventions, such as those that inhere in topographical verse of the period, invite original poets to overstep those bounds while also shielding them from...
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New York :
Routledge,
[2023].
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| Series: | Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature.
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Table of Contents:
- Pervious landscapes: Pope, Wordsworth, Cowper. The weather underground: Pope in "Ode on solitude"
- Bearing it away: "The solitary reaper"
- "What can it signify?": finding the subject in "On the Ice-Islands floating in the Germanic Ocean"
- Landscapes of loss: Duck, Goldsmith, Crabbe. "Lost, drown'd": the problem of the imagination in "The thresher's labour"
- Road to nowhere: the poetics of absence in "The deserted village"
- Lost cause: The village and the place of the manners tribute
- Vanishings: Thomson, Gray, Smith. "Conning nature's book": body, soul, self, and poetic vision in The seasons
- Vanishing point: Gray in the Eton ode
- "Bearing the cor'se to land": Beachy head.