The Politics of Landscape: Rural Scenery and Society in English Poetry, 1630-1660

The Politics of Landscape: Rural Scenery and Society in English Poetry, 1630-1660
Abstract: 

Artists, poets, agriculturalists and political theorists construct the imaginary countryside of England while the country itself, from landowner to peasant, tears itself apart in the Civil War. Awarded the Thomas J. Wilson Prize, l979g

Publication date: 
February 15, 1979
Publication type: 
Monograph