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The Georgic Revolution

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 distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

By Anthony Low

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9780691639536 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 19, 2016, cover price $132.50

9780691066431 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 1, 1985, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: 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.

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9780691611532 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 14, 2014, cover price $53.00 | About this edition: 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.

John Clare and Community

Product Description: John Clare (1793-1864) is one of the most sensitive poetic observers of the natural world. Born into a rural laboring family, he felt connected to two communities: his native village and the Romantic and earlier poets who inspired him...read more

By John Goodridge

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9780521887021 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 25, 2013, cover price $99.99

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9781107566538 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 2, 2015, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: John Clare (1793-1864) is one of the most sensitive poetic observers of the natural world.

My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past, Library Edition

Product Description: The memoir of a German-Nigerian woman who learns that her grandfather was the brutal Nazi commandant depicted in "Schindler's List," Amon Goeth.

By Jennifer Teege

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9780521362528, titled "Ceremonies of Innocence: Pastoralism in the Poetry of Edmund Spenser" | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 1, 1989, cover price $69.95 | also contains Ceremonies of Innocence: Pastoralism in the Poetry of Edmund Spenser

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9781504639996, titled "My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past: Library Edition" | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, May 26, 2015), cover price $76.00 | About this edition: The memoir of a German-Nigerian woman who learns that her grandfather was the brutal Nazi commandant depicted in "Schindler's List," Amon Goeth.

Robert Burns and Pastoral: Poetry and Improvement in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland

By Nigel Leask

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9780199572618 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 23, 2010, cover price $120.00

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9780198732426 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, September 9, 2015), cover price $45.95

Romantic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition

By Jonathan Bate

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9780415856591 | Routledge, May 23, 2013, cover price $155.00

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9780415856652 | Routledge, December 3, 2014, cover price $48.95

9780415061162 | Routledge, July 1, 1991, cover price $13.95

Pastoral Elegy in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry

Product Description: Defying critical suggestions that the pastoral elegy is obsolete, Iain Twiddy reveals the popularity of the form in the work of major contemporary poets Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Paul Muldoon, Michael Longley, Douglas Dunn and Peter Reading...read more

By Iain Twiddy

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9781441139412 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 17, 2012, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Defying critical suggestions that the pastoral elegy is obsolete, Iain Twiddy reveals the popularity of the form in the work of major contemporary poets Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Paul Muldoon, Michael Longley, Douglas Dunn and Peter Reading.

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9781472523792 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, January 16, 2014, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Defying critical suggestions that the pastoral elegy is obsolete, Iain Twiddy reveals the popularity of the form in the work of major contemporary poets Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Paul Muldoon, Michael Longley, Douglas Dunn and Peter Reading.

Transforming Work: Early Modern Pastoral and Late Medieval Poetry

Product Description: Pastoral poetry has long been considered a signature Renaissance mode: originating in late sixteenth-century England via a rediscovery of classical texts, it is concerned with self-fashioning and celebrating the court. But, as Katherine C...read more

By Katherine C. Little

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9780268033873 | Univ of Notre Dame Pr, April 15, 2013, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: Pastoral poetry has long been considered a signature Renaissance mode: originating in late sixteenth-century England via a rediscovery of classical texts, it is concerned with self-fashioning and celebrating the court.

Surgery of the Thyroid And Parathyroid Glands

Product Description: This book is a unique in-depth and comprehensive reference that covers all surgically relevant thyroid and parathyroid diseases and presents the latest information on their management. International authorities discuss operative techniques and treatments in detail and explain the rationales for their favored approaches...read more

By Daniel Oertli (editor) and Robert Udelsman (editor)

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9783642234583 | 2 edition (Springer Verlag, November 10, 2012), cover price $209.00 | About this edition: This book is a unique in-depth and comprehensive reference that covers all surgically relevant thyroid and parathyroid diseases and presents the latest information on their management.

9783540291657 | 1 edition (Springer Verlag, January 1, 2007), cover price $299.00

9780226448466, titled "Milton's Pastoral Vision: An Approach to Paradise Lost" | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 1, 1971, cover price $15.00 | also contains Milton''s Pastoral Vision: An Approach to Paradise Lost | About this edition: An interpretive study tracing the traditional elements of pastoral poetry throughout Paradise Lost to demonstrate the interaction of pastoral content and epic form as the dynamic element in the poem

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9783642067136 | Springer Verlag, November 29, 2010, cover price $299.00 | About this edition: This text provides a uniquely comprehensive reference covering all surgically relevant thyroid and parathyroid diseases.

One Foot in Eden: Modes of Pastoral in Romantic Poetry

Product Description: A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value...read more

By Lore Metzger

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9780807816783 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, May 1, 1986, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print.

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9780807897263 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, July 21, 2010, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print.

Ceremonies of Innocence: Pastoralism in the Poetry of Edmund Spenser

By John D. Bernard

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9780521362528 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 1, 1989, cover price $69.95 | also contains My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past, Library Edition

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9780521129237 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, February 4, 2010), cover price $44.99

George Herbert's Pastoral: New Essays on the Poet and Priest of Bemerton

Product Description: As poet and as country parson, George Herbert engaged the pastoral in all of its varied senses. In October of 2007, many of the world's leading Herbert scholars met at Sarum College in Salisbury, England to locate Herbert's pastoral life and writings more particularly in early Stuart Wiltshire...read more

By Christopher Hodgkins (editor)

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9780874130225 | Univ of Delaware Pr, January 31, 2010, cover price $69.50 | About this edition: As poet and as country parson, George Herbert engaged the pastoral in all of its varied senses.

9781611490886 | Univ of Delaware Pr, January 31, 2010, cover price $90.00

A Dangerous Liberty: Translating Grey's Elegy

Product Description: Thomas Gray's "An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" enjoyed extraordinary popular success in Europe, where it was widely translated, imitated, adapted, and in various ways assimilated into the continental literatures. The history of the Elegy's circulation on the continent demonstrates the importance of the poem to the romantic generation of European poets, while appreciation of this history serves to illuminate modern critical approaches to the poem's often uncertain or ambiguous meaning...read more

By James D. Garrison

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9780874130621 | 1 edition (Univ of Delaware Pr, July 30, 2009), cover price $32.50 | About this edition: Thomas Gray's "An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" enjoyed extraordinary popular success in Europe, where it was widely translated, imitated, adapted, and in various ways assimilated into the continental literatures.

John Clare's Religion

By Sarah Houghton-walker

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9780754665144 | Ashgate Pub Co, April 1, 2009, cover price $149.95

Robert Bloomfield, Romanticism and the Poetry of Community

Product Description: Robert Bloomfield, whom John Clare described as 'the most original poet of the age,' was a widely read and critically acclaimed poet throughout the first decade of the nineteenth century, and remained popular until the beginning of the twentieth century...read more

By Simon J. White

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9780754657538 | Ashgate Pub Co, August 1, 2007, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Robert Bloomfield, whom John Clare described as 'the most original poet of the age,' was a widely read and critically acclaimed poet throughout the first decade of the nineteenth century, and remained popular until the beginning of the twentieth century.

Pastoral and the Poetics of Self-Contradiction: Theocritus to Marvell

Product Description: The traditional view of pastoral as a static genre, aimed at the recreation of an idyllic past, has recently been challenged by historicist critics. Here Judith Haber complicates the opposition between humanist and historicist perspectives by examining ways in which pastoral poets themselves interrogate the contradictory relations inherent in their genre...read more

By Judith Deborah Haber

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9780521442060 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 1, 1994, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: Humanist and historicist views of pastoral as a genre are subject to challenge in this 1995 book.

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9780521034616 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 14, 2006, cover price $44.99 | About this edition: The traditional view of pastoral as a static genre, aimed at the recreation of an idyllic past, has recently been challenged by historicist critics.

Robert Bloomfield: Lyrics, Class, And the Romantic Canon

Product Description: John Lucas has remarked that, "We cannot hope to understand that historical period which is habitually called Romanticism if we do not pay attention to the works of Robert Bloomfield." This collection includes essays that consider how Bloomfield's poetry contributes to an understanding of the predominant issues, forms, and themes of literary Romanticism...read more

By John Goodridge (editor), Bridget Keegan (editor) and Simon White (editor)

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9780838756294 | 1 edition (Bucknell Univ Pr, September 30, 2006), cover price $58.50 | About this edition: John Lucas has remarked that, "We cannot hope to understand that historical period which is habitually called Romanticism if we do not pay attention to the works of Robert Bloomfield.

Tiger Ride

Christie's family promises her a tiger ride during her visit to the zoo and she is apprehensive until she finds out her tiger is on a merry-go-round.

By Mildred Pitts Walter

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9780689805851 | Atheneum, April 1, 1997, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Christie's family promises her a tiger ride during her visit to the zoo and she is apprehensive until she finds out her tiger is on a merry-go-round.

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9780027923032 | Bradbury Pr, October 1, 2002, cover price $17.00 | also contains The Shepherd's Calander: An Introduction | About this edition: Christie's family promises her a tiger ride during her visit to the zoo and she is apprehensive until she finds out her tiger is on a merry-go-round.

William Wordsworth's Golden Age Theories During the Industrial Revolution in England, 1750-1850

Product Description: Wordsworth's romantic critique of industrial life and society was backward-looking. His 'Golden Age ideal' of pastoral life and rural relationships falls within the scope of English 'populism' as found among the middle ranks of small independent producers and their idealogues...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Mark Keay

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9780333794364 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 1, 2001, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: Wordsworth's romantic critique of industrial life and society was backward-looking.

The Affectionate Shepherd: Celebrating Richard Barnfield

Product Description: Despite various influential writers' and critics' high praise of the poetry of Richard Barnfield (1574-1620/26?), his work has long been marginalized in English literary history because of its pervasive homoeroticism. Current interest in literary representations of gender and sexuality, in dissent from dominant ideologies, and in the early modern possibilities of same-sexual subjectivities, accounts for the renewed interest in Barnfield's poetry...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Richard Barnfield (editor), Kenneth Borris (editor) and George Klawitter (editor)

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9781575910499 | Susquehanna Univ Pr, June 1, 2001, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Despite various influential writers' and critics' high praise of the poetry of Richard Barnfield (1574-1620/26?

Pastoral Tradition and the Female Talent: Studies in Augustan Poetry

Product Description: This work presents a survey of this influential genre of 18th-century literature, highlighting feminist themes and invoking implicit feminist ideology. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Ann Messenger

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9780404635251 | Ams Pr Inc, March 1, 2001, cover price $74.50 | About this edition: This work presents a survey of this influential genre of 18th-century literature, highlighting feminist themes and invoking implicit feminist ideology.

Colin's Campus: Cambridge Life and the English Eclogue

Product Description: Returning lo the origins of English pastoral poetry in the sixteenth century, Colin's Campus examines the influence that the world of Cambridge University exercised upon the imagination of Edmund Spenser as well as two other Cambridge students who followed him in the creation of English pastoral verse -- Phineas Fletcher and John Milton...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Gary M. Bouchard

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9781575910444 | Susquehanna Univ Pr, October 1, 2000, cover price $33.50 | About this edition: Returning lo the origins of English pastoral poetry in the sixteenth century, Colin's Campus examines the influence that the world of Cambridge University exercised upon the imagination of Edmund Spenser as well as two other Cambridge students who followed him in the creation of English pastoral verse -- Phineas Fletcher and John Milton.

The Sources and Traditions of Milton's L'Allegro and Il Pensoroso

Product Description: Brings together sources from which two of Milton's poems allegedly derive and the traditions to which the poems contribute, and reevaluates the methods and conclusions of source studies that have long influenced the thinking of commentators on these works...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By C. Harold Hurley

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9780773479135 | Edwin Mellen Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: Brings together sources from which two of Milton's poems allegedly derive and the traditions to which the poems contribute, and reevaluates the methods and conclusions of source studies that have long influenced the thinking of commentators on these works.

Pastoral Process: Spenser, Marvell, Milton

Product Description: Pastoral Process draws a basic distinction between two aspects of the pastoral ideal: the Arcadian pastoral, which locates the unspoiled paradise in space, apart from the complexities of city and court, and finds it accessible for limited periods of recuperation and reorientation; and the Golden Age mode, which locates the ideal pastoral life in time gone by, always already lost as soon as it is apprehended as paradise...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Susan Snyder

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9780804731065 | Stanford Univ Pr, July 1, 1998, cover price $52.50 | About this edition: Pastoral Process draws a basic distinction between two aspects of the pastoral ideal: the Arcadian pastoral, which locates the unspoiled paradise in space, apart from the complexities of city and court, and finds it accessible for limited periods of recuperation and reorientation; and the Golden Age mode, which locates the ideal pastoral life in time gone by, always already lost as soon as it is apprehended as paradise.

Lies, Slander, and Obscenity in Medieval English Narrative: Pastoral Rhetoric and the Deviant Speaker

Product Description: Drawing on manuscript sources, this book examines how the medieval clergy developed the authority and persuasive force to attempt to govern the day-to-day speech of Western Christians. It explores, for the first time, how Chaucer, Langland, Gower and the "Patience" poet presented and judged these attempts to label some political, social and private speech as deviant and destructive--as lying, slander, blasphemy and other Sins of the Tongue...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Edwin D. Craun

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9780521496902 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 1997, cover price $119.99 | About this edition: Drawing on manuscript sources, this book examines how the medieval clergy developed the authority and persuasive force to attempt to govern the day-to-day speech of Western Christians.

Poetry in the British Isles: Non-Metropolitan Perspectives

By Lothar Fietz (editor), Hans-Werner Ludwig (editor) and Hans-Werner Lundwig (editor)

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9780708312667 | Univ of Wales Pr, November 12, 1995, cover price $27.95

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