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Cultivating peace : the Virgilian Georgic in English, 1650-1750 / Melissa Schoenberger.
LIBRA PA6804.G4 S34 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schoenberger, Melissa, 1987- author.
- Series:
- Transits (Bucknell University)
- Transits: literature, thought & culture 1650-1850
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Virgil. Georgica.
- Virgil.
- Virgil--Influence.
- Georgica (Virgil).
- English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- English poetry--18th century--History and criticism.
- Peace in literature.
- English poetry--Early modern.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- pages cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, 2019.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the arts of peace
- Mutability: cycles of war and peace
- On mutability: Virgil's first lesson
- Before Marvell: Georgic mutability in England
- The trap of war and the map of paradise: Marvell's vision of peace
- Translation: Virgil and Dryden in 1697
- The English Virgil
- Dryden's Georgics: "nor when the war is over, is it peace"
- From peace to war: the Aeneis
- Contingency: the Georgic poetry of Anne Finch
- A Virgilian retreat
- Finch and the force of fable
- Imitation: the Georgics before and after 1713
- John Philips and the inmate orchat
- From didactic to descriptive
- After Thomson: Christopher Smart, the hop-garden, and the end of Georgic peace
- Conclusion: "at their hours of preparation."
- ISBN:
- 9781684480487
- 1684480485
- 9781684480470
- 1684480477
- OCLC:
- 1038469931
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