British labouring-class nature poetry, 1730-1837
By: Bridget Keegan.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A weed in nature's poesy : British labouring-class nature poetry, 1730-1837; title: The fields his study : Robert Bloomfield's poetics of sustainability; title: Return to the garden : James Woodhouse and polite cultivations; title: Heavenly prospects : views from Clifton and Cliffden; title: Writing against the current : Anne Wilson's Teisa and labouring-class river poetry; title: What terms of art can nature's pow'rs express? : William Falconer and labouring-class poetry at sea; title: And all is nakedness and fen : John Clare's Wetlands; title: The politics and poetics of wood : labouring-class poetry in the Victorian era.