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the pastoral tradition in english poetry contents introduction chapter 1. the origins and development of the country-house poem tradition 1.1. historical and literary background 1.2. definition and characteristics of country-house poems chapter 2. thematic and stylistic analysis of selected country-house poems 2.1. the celebration of rural ideals and hospitality 2.2. nature, architecture, and landscape description conclusion references introduction this thesis examines the depiction of the country estate in english women’s poetry of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. the poems i shall discuss belong to the country house genre, work with or adapt its conventions and tropes, or belong to what alastair fowler categorises as the distinct sub-genres of the country house poem.1 despite the suggestive scholarship on landscape and place and a broad body of critical work on male-authored examples of the country house genre, the corpus of female-authored country house poems remains largely absent from critical studies.2 …

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nd geographic range of the poets using the genre. as constance jordan notes, ‘[i]nvestigators of the past lives of women as 1 the country house poem: a cabinet of seventeenth-century estate poems and related items, ed. by alastair fowler (edinburgh: edinburgh university press, 1994), pp. 1-29 (pp. 14-16). 2 the scholarship on landscape is extensive. the following studies cover the substantive points: denis e. cosgrove, social formation and symbolic landscape (london: croom helm, 1984), pp. 1-8; malcolm andrews, landscape and western art (oxford: oxford university press, 1999); john dixon hunt and peter willis eds., ‘introduction’, the genius of the place: the english landscape garden 1620-1820 (london: paul elek, 1975), pp. 1-46; john dixon hunt, the figure in the landscape: poetry, painting, and gardening during the eighteenth century (baltimore: johns hopkins university press,1989); james turner, the politics of landscape: rural scenery and society in english poetry 1630-1660 (oxford: blackwell, 1979); chris …

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e generally, allows a range of female poets to explore issues of identity and questions of genre within the shifting constraints of the social, political and economic asymmetries of the period. it might well be argued that other genres and poetic modes provide a similar forum for such a discussion; as nigel smith notes, ‘the identities and allegiances created during the civil war and its aftermath survived by being inscribed into a number of genres concerned with the land, landscape, cultivation and fishing.’6 however, i shall contend that the specific contexts of the period 1650–1750 indicate a particular thematic relevance of the country house, its relationship to power, its role in constructing various and varying identities, and its association with major poets of the period. chapter 1. the origins and development of the country-house poem tradition 1.1. historical and literary background thirdly, i will situate the corpus of women’s poetry …

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7 (p. 154). 3 correspondences.7 at the same time, i do not intend to establish an alternative, female-authored country house canon, but rather aim to explore the correspondences and continuities of poetic practice across the genre. these continuities are visible synchronically between writing peers regardless of gender. they are also visible diachronically as a response to existing texts. to consider the corpus of texts discussed here as a discrete body of texts would risk occluding this important and revealing dynamic. the resulting discussion will not only address the critical void pertaining to women’s country house poetry but also extend, complicate and update the critical work on the country house genre and on women’s poetic practices more generally. critical analyses of the male-authored country house canon explore in depth the issue of various forms of identity with regard to socio-political power structures and literary genre. an extension of these theoretical and …

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ases. these phases – up to 1640, 1640-1660 and 1660 to the early eighteenth 7 typical of this emphasis on discontinuities is maureen quilligan’s assertion. ‘completing the conversation’, shakespeare studies, 25 (1997), 42-49 (p. 47). 8 the country house poem, ed. by fowler, pp. 1-29. 4 century – each respond to a different complex of socio-political and economic conditions, events or cultural contexts, each in turn using a slightly different balance of forms and topoi. 9 at its most basic level the country house poem functions to establish, or maintain, a myth of an ideal community and it does so against a prevailing climate of cultural anxiety or conflict, which the genre often occludes and elides.10 whilst the exact complexion or composition of the myth promoted and the anxiety negotiated changes, the basic function of the country house poem remains. for charles molesworth, the genre is more simply defined as: …

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the pastoral tradition in english poetry contents introduction chapter 1. the origins and development of the country-house poem tradition 1.1. historical and literary background 1.2. definition and characteristics of country-house poems chapter 2. thematic and stylistic analysis of selected country-house poems 2.1. the celebration of rural ideals and hospitality 2.2. nature, architecture, and landscape description conclusion references introduction this thesis examines the depiction of the country estate in english women’s poetry of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. the poems i shall discuss belong to the country house genre, work with or adapt its conventions and tropes, or belong to what alastair fowler categorises as the distinct sub-genres of the country house poem.1...

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