The country house poem
Subtitle: a cabinet of seventeenth-century estate poems and related items
By: [compiled by] Alastair Fowler.
Contributors: Fowler, Alastair.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 433
Subjects: Country homes -- Poetry.; Pastoral poetry, English.; English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700.
Description: This major new collection of almost all the known estate poems of the seventeenth century draws on the literary, historical and artistic traditions of the period to clarify this much debated genre. The poems are mostly reproduced in their entirety and include ten from the Mildmay Fane manuscripts - an important, but so far unpublished source of such material. Full notes accompany the text, explaining difficult passages and relating them to their biographical, social and political contexts.

There is a substantial introduction, a comprehensive bibliography, and a listing of visual sources complementing the contemporary illustrations. Containing much new evidence for architectural- and art-historians as well as for literary scholars, The Country House Poem is set to become the definitive work in this field.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-433).