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...
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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. 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
Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-211) and index
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: 'A Weed in Nature's Poesy' - British Labouring-Class Nature Poetry, 1730-1837; 1 'The Fields His Study': Robert Bloomfield's Poetics of Sustainability; 2 Return to the Garden: James Woodhouse and Polite Cultivations; 3 Heavenly Prospects: Views From Clifton and Cliffden; 4 Writing Against the Current: Anne Wilson's Teisa and Labouring-Class River Poetry; 5 'What Terms of Art Can Nature's Pow'rs Express?': William Falconer and Labouring-Class Poetry at Sea; 6 'And All is Nakedness and Fen': John Clare's Wetlands
Conclusion: The Politics and Poetics of Wood - Labouring-Class Poetry in the Victorian EraNotes; Index
