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Chapter 6 - ‘Varieties too Regular for Chance’

John Evelyn, John Dryden and Their Contemporaries

from Part II - Times

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2022

By
Melissa Schoenberger
Edited by
Paddy Bullard
Paddy Bullard
Affiliation:
University of Reading
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This chapter explores georgic writing that appeared during the second half of the seventeenth century, with special attention to engagements with civil war and its aftermaths. The discussion also attends closely to Virgilian strains in English georgic writing and to the significances of literary imitation and translation. Authors covered include Andrew Marvell, John Evelyn, Abraham Cowley, John Milton, Joseph Addison and John Dryden, as well as the ancient writers Hesiod and Virgil.

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georgicVirgilMarvellMiltonDrydenparadisecivil wartranslation
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A History of English Georgic Writing , pp. 140 - 154
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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