This book explores the complex and contested relationships that existed between class, patronage, and poetry in Hanoverian England by examining the life and work of Stephen Duck, the 'famous threshing poet'. Duck's remarkable story reveals the tolerances, and intolerances, of the Hanoverian social order.
This book explores the complex and contested relationships that existed between class, patronage, and poetry in Hanoverian England by examining the life and work of Stephen Duck, the 'famous threshing poet'. Duck's remarkable story reveals the tolerances, and intolerances, of the Hanoverian social order.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Jennifer Batt is a Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction: 'All mankind would make a figure' * 1: 'A Man grown up into an Excellent Poet all at once': Making the Poet * 2: ''Tis agreeable to see what use he has made of his Reading': Writing 'The Thresher's Labour' * 3: 'From the Author's own Original Manuscript': Publishing 'the famous Threshing Poet' * 4: 'For Duck can thresh, you know, as well as write': Becoming 'the famous Threshing Poet' * 5: 'The Duty of a grateful Muse': Writing at Court * 6: 'Various Beauties overpay my Toil': Reimaging Landscape and Labour * 7: 'Too Severe on the Female Sex'?: Negotiating Class and Gender * 8: 'A very agreeable Conversation': Making Friends with Horace * 9: 'Some Gentleman-like Title, as that of The Revd': Joining the Clergy * Conclusion: 'The Bard may die - the Thresher still survive'
* Introduction: 'All mankind would make a figure' * 1: 'A Man grown up into an Excellent Poet all at once': Making the Poet * 2: ''Tis agreeable to see what use he has made of his Reading': Writing 'The Thresher's Labour' * 3: 'From the Author's own Original Manuscript': Publishing 'the famous Threshing Poet' * 4: 'For Duck can thresh, you know, as well as write': Becoming 'the famous Threshing Poet' * 5: 'The Duty of a grateful Muse': Writing at Court * 6: 'Various Beauties overpay my Toil': Reimaging Landscape and Labour * 7: 'Too Severe on the Female Sex'?: Negotiating Class and Gender * 8: 'A very agreeable Conversation': Making Friends with Horace * 9: 'Some Gentleman-like Title, as that of The Revd': Joining the Clergy * Conclusion: 'The Bard may die - the Thresher still survive'
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