The poetics of empire
Subtitle: a study of James Grainger's The sugar cane
By: John Gilmore.
Contributors: Grainger, James, 1721?-1766.
Publisher: Athlone Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London; New Brunswick, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Grainger, James, 1721?-1766.; Didactic poetry, English -- History and criticism.; Plantation life in literature.; Sugarcane industry -- Poetry.; Imperialism in literature.; Agriculture in literature.; Plantation life -- Poetry.; Imperialism -- Poetry.; Sugarcane -- Poetry.; Caribbean Area -- In literature.; Caribbean Area -- Poetry.
Genres: Poetry.
Description: First published in 1764, The Sugar Cane is a major work in the history of Anglophone Caribbean literature. It is the only poem written in the Caribbean before the twentieth century to achieve a place in the Western 'canon'. Grainger wrote a "West India Georgic", challenging assumptions about poetic diction and the proper subject matter of poetry, and boldly asserting the importance of the Caribbean to the eighteenth-century British empire. This is the first reliable text and critical study of the poem, setting it within the context of Grainger's life and work. -- Book cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-332) and index.