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Topographical poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Topographical poetry or loco-descriptive poetry is a genre of poetry that describes, and often praises, a landscape or place. John Denham's 1642 poem "Cooper's Hill" established the genre, which pe...
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It is arguably the oldest topographical poem in the English canon, initiating the genre known as the 'country-house poem'. Ben Jonson published To Penshurst in 1616 during the reign of ... In return for the support of influential patrons like the Sidney family, poets often wrote "praise poetry" to honor or flatter them.
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approaches to topographical poetry in the twentieth century generally follow his example in avoiding the constraints of being exclusively concerned with locality per se. Many of Thomas Hardy's poems are sufficiently rich in details drawn from his Wessex surroundings to function on one level as topographical poetry.
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and waterfalls.1 Because American topographical poetry was so .... over social restraint, but in early American topographical poetry ...
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The author defines topographical poetry as that which describes specifically named actual localities, and subdivides it into ...
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Aug 1, 2008 ... Text Archive > American Libraries > The topographical poems of John O'Dubhagain and Giolla na naomh O'Huidhrin ...
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Although it is possible to classify these twelve pieces as "travel poems" or "topographical poems," it is probably not (in the last analysis) very helpful to do so. For it is important to note ... 3 Vilhjálmur Þ. Gíslason has pointed out that the poems in question, "as well as some of Jónas's earlier travel poetry,
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topographical poetry, described by Dr Johnson as ‘local poetry, of which the fundamental object is some particular landscape…with the addition of…historical retrospection or incidental meditation’.
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Book by Victor Howard; Michigan State University Press, 1998. 262 pgs. ... Find in Book: ... THE QUEBEC MODEL, TOPOGRAPHICAL POETRY, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF CENTRAL CANADA...
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