British Labouring-Class Nature Poetry, 1730-1837

✍ Scribed by Bridget Keegan

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 233
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This study shows how poets worked within and against the available forms of nature writing to challenge their place within physical, political, and cultural landscapes. Looking at the treatment of different ecosystems, it argues that writing about the environment allowed labouring-class poets to explore important social and aesthetic questions.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 9
List of Abbreviations......Page 12
Introduction: ‘A Weed in Nature’s Poesy’ – British Labouring-Class Nature Poetry, 1730–1837......Page 14
1 ‘The Fields His Study’: Robert Bloomfield’s Poetics of Sustainability......Page 23
2 Return to the Garden: James Woodhouse and Polite Cultivations......Page 50
3 Heavenly Prospects: Views From Clifton and Cliffden......Page 78
4 Writing Against the Current: Anne Wilson’s Teisa and Labouring-Class River Poetry......Page 111
5 ‘What Terms of Art Can Nature’s Pow’rs Express?’: William Falconer and Labouring-Class Poetry at Sea......Page 135
6 ‘And All is Nakedness and Fen’: John Clare’s Wetlands......Page 161
Conclusion: The Politics and Poetics of Wood – Labouring-Class Poetry in the Victorian Era......Page 185
Notes......Page 206
B......Page 225
C......Page 226
F......Page 227
I......Page 228
M......Page 229
P......Page 230
S......Page 231
W......Page 232
Y......Page 233