The Decline of the Country-House Poem in England: A Study in the History of Ideas
Description:
This study discusses the evolution of the English country-house poem from its inception by Ben Jonson in "To Penshurst" to the present. It shows that in addition to stylistic and thematic borrowings primarily from Horace and Martial, traditional English values associated with the great hall and comitatus ideal helped define features of the English country-house poem, to which Jonson added the metonymical use of architecture.
In the Jonsonian country-house poem, the country estate, exemplified b…
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Date:
August 1988
Creator:
Harris, Candice R. (Candice Rae)