Terry Gifford offers a clear and invaluable introduction to 'pastoral', clarifying its uses and tracing the history of the genre from its classical origins...
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Terry Gifford offers a clear and invaluable introduction to 'pastoral', clarifying its uses and tracing the history of the genre from its classical origins through to contemporary writing. This guidebook provides:
• clarification of the different definitions of pastoral
• introduction to the major arguments about the form
• identification and close reading of key texts - including classical poetry, Elizabethan drama, the pastoral poetry of Pope, Wordsworth and Clare, and contemporary poetry, fiction and travel writing
• an examination of the anti-pastoral tradition
• a discussion of 'post-pastoral' texts
Terry Gifford is Research Co-ordinator at the School of English, Bretton Hall College of Leeds University. He is author of Green Voices: Understanding Contemporary Nature Poetry.