Rural Life in Eighteenth-Century English Poetry
Edition: New edition
Series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 15, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780521604321
Subjects: Poetry & poets: 16th to 18th centuries; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; British Isles; Eastern European; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English poetry--18th century--History and cri; English poetry--18th century--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / Eastern European; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism-Eastern European; Poetry-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; 18th century; English poetry; Great Britain; History; History and criticism; Literature and society; Rural conditions in literature
First sentence: Jonathan Swift's complaint that The Seasons are 'all Description, and nothing is doing' reflects a fundamentally negative view of rural life as a serious subject for pastoral and georgic.