Transforming work : early modern pastoral and late medieval poetry /
Little, Katherine C.,1969-
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-248) and index.
Medieval traditions of writing rural labor -- The invention of the English eclogue -- The pastoral mode and agrarian capitalism -- Transforming work: the reformation and the Piers Plowman tradition -- Spenser's Shepheardes Calender and a poetry of rural labor -- Reading pastoral in book 6 of Spenser's Faerie Queene -- Afterword: The secret history of pastoral.
Pastoral poetry, English
English poetry
Literature, Medieval