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The poetics of empire : a study of James Grainger's The sugar-cane / John Gilmore.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gilmore, John, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Didactic poetry, English--History and criticism.
- Didactic poetry, English.
- Plantation life in literature.
- Sugarcane industry--Poetry.
- Sugarcane industry.
- Imperialism in literature.
- Agriculture in literature.
- Plantation life--Poetry.
- Plantation life.
- Imperialism--Poetry.
- Imperialism.
- Sugarcane--Poetry.
- Sugarcane.
- Caribbean Area--In literature.
- Caribbean Area.
- Caribbean Area--Poetry.
- Grainger, James, 1721?-1766. Sugar cane.
- Grainger, James.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New Brunswick, NJ : Athlone Press ; Somerset, N.J. : Distributed in the U.S. by Transaction Publishers, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 sought to interpret his personal experience of the Caribbean through his wide and deep reading in literature, from the Greeks to Milton. 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 t
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Notes to Introduction; The Sugar-Cane: A Poem; Appendix I: ""Great Homer deignd to sing of little Mice""; Appendix II: Bryan and Pereene; Appendix III: Colonel Martin's directions for planting and sugar-making; Appendix IV: Ramsay's account of a plantation day; Additional Notes to The Sugar-Cane; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-332) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611291785
- 9781281291783
- 1281291781
- 9781847143822
- 1847143822
- OCLC:
- 290594188
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