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Low discusses the courtly or aristocratic ideal as the great enemy of the georgic spirit, and shows that georgic powerfully invaded English poetry in the years from 1590 to 1700. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the dist



Table of Contents
*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*List of Illustrations, pg. ix*Acknowledgments, pg. xi*Introduction, pg. 1*1. Resistance to Georgic, pg. 13*2. Poet of Work: Spenser and the Courtly Ideal, pg. 35*3. The New Century, pg. 71*4. New Science and the Georgic Revolution, pg. 117*5. Georgic and Christian Reform, pg. 155*6. Georgic and the Civil War, pg. 221*7. Milton and the Georgic Ideal, pg. 296*Conclusion, pg. 353*Index, pg. 359

The Georgic Revolution

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 14/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9780691611532, 978-0691611532
      ISBN10: 069161153X

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Low discusses the courtly or aristocratic ideal as the great enemy of the georgic spirit, and shows that georgic powerfully invaded English poetry in the years from 1590 to 1700. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the dist



      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*List of Illustrations, pg. ix*Acknowledgments, pg. xi*Introduction, pg. 1*1. Resistance to Georgic, pg. 13*2. Poet of Work: Spenser and the Courtly Ideal, pg. 35*3. The New Century, pg. 71*4. New Science and the Georgic Revolution, pg. 117*5. Georgic and Christian Reform, pg. 155*6. Georgic and the Civil War, pg. 221*7. Milton and the Georgic Ideal, pg. 296*Conclusion, pg. 353*Index, pg. 359

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