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Author:   Elizabeth R. Napier
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.360kg
ISBN:  

9781032188171

ISBN 10:   1032188170
Pages:   202
Publication Date:   30 November 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction I. Pervious Landscapes: Pope, Wordsworth, Cowper Chapter One The Weather Underground: Pope in ""Ode on Solitude"" Chapter Two Bearing It Away: ""The Solitary Reaper"" Chapter Three ""What Can It Signify?"": Finding the Subject in ""On the Ice-Islands Floating in the Germanic Ocean"" II. Landscapes of Loss: Duck, Goldsmith, Crabbe Chapter Four ""Lost, drown'd"": The Problem of the Imagination in ""The Thresher's Labour"" Chapter Five Road to Nowhere: The Poetics of Absence in ""The Deserted Village"" Chapter Six Lost Cause: The Village and the Place of the Manners Tribute III. Vanishings: Thomson, Gray, Smith Chapter Seven ""Conning Nature's Book"": Body, Soul, Self, and Poetic Vision in The Seasons Chapter Eight Vanishing Point: Gray in the Eton Ode Chapter Nine ""Bearing the Cor’se to Land"": Beachy Head Epilogue Works Cited"

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This exemplary study of eighteenth-century landscape poetry explores the complex relationship of self and place to present new, original, and intelligent readings of a range of authors from the period. -Dr Carol Bolton, Senior Lecturer in English, Loughborough University, UK.

"""This exemplary study of eighteenth-century landscape poetry explores the complex relationship of self and place to present new, original, and intelligent readings of a range of authors from the period."" -Dr Carol Bolton, Senior Lecturer in English, Loughborough University, UK."

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Elizabeth R. Napier is Professor Emerita in the Department of English, Middlebury College. She has published on, among other subjects, eighteenth-century English Gothic fiction, problems of embodiment in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English fiction, and narrative strategies in the work of Daniel Defoe.

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