British Labouring-Class Nature Poetry, 1730–1837

✍ Scribed by Bridget Keegan (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 233
• Edition: 1
• 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

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: ‘A Weed in Nature’s Poesy’ — British Labouring-Class Nature Poetry, 1730–1837....Pages 1-9
‘The Fields His Study’: Robert Bloomfield’s Poetics of Sustainability....Pages 10-36
Return to the Garden: James Woodhouse and Polite Cultivations....Pages 37-64
Heavenly Prospects: Views From Clifton and Cliffden....Pages 65-97
Writing Against the Current: Anne Wilson’s Teisa and Labouring-Class River Poetry....Pages 98-121
‘What Terms of Art Can Nature’s Pow’rs Express?’: William Falconer and Labouring-Class Poetry at Sea....Pages 122-147
‘And All is Nakedness and Fen’: John Clare’s Wetlands....Pages 148-171
Conclusion: The Politics and Poetics of Wood — Labouring-Class Poetry in the Victorian Era....Pages 172-192
Back Matter....Pages 193-220

✦ Subjects

Poetry and Poetics;British and Irish Literature;Nineteenth-Century Literature;Early Modern/Renaissance Literature