The English Georgic: A Study in the Development of a Form

Addison Aeneid Aristaeus attitude Augustan Autumn bees Book burlesque Chaos-like Chase clearly comic contrast Cooper's Hill couplet critical Cyder Denham didactic digressions discussion Dryden's translation Dyer echoes Eclogues edited effect eighteenth-century elements elevation emphasis English epic episode example experience expressed Gay's Georgic Georgic tradition gives Golden Age Grainger Grattius happy harmony heroic Hesiod hunting ideal imitation important influence Iron Iron Age Jago John Gay kind labour lines literary Lucretius Miltonic mock-heroic moral Muse Musidora nature Nemesianus o'er Octavian Oppian parallel passage pastoral patriotic peace Philips pleasure poet poetic poetry political Pope Pope's praise of Italy preceptive prelapsarian R. S. Conway reader reference retirement Rural Sports satire says scene Seasons seems seen sense social Somerville Somerville's Spring style stylistic suggests Summer Thames theme Thomson thought thro tone Trivia Virgil Virgil's poem Virgilian Windsor Forest Winter writing