English Pastoral Verse

An anthology divided into eight broadly chronological sections, each preceded by an introduction tracing the development of the pastoral tradition and its relation to the changing social conditions of a particular period. Includes formal eclogues, pastoral drama, country-house poems, poems about agriculture in the style of Virgil's Georgics , and poems that satirize or denounce the pastoral tradition. xvii plus 539 pages with Index of Authors and Index of First Lines and Titles. 5.2 x 7.75 inches. Penguin Books, Middlesex, England, 1982.