Poetry, enclosure, and the vernacular landscape, 1700-1830

Abstract

List of illustrations Part I. Representational Spaces: Introduction: expansion and contraction 1. Codifying containment: the parliamentary enclosures 2. Altering the prospects: Switzer, Whately, and Repton Part II. The Poetry of Earth: 3. English Georgic and British nationhood 4. Philips's Cyder: Englishing the apple 5. Jago's Edge-Hill: simulation and representation Part III. Infinitude Confined: 6. Lyric art 7. The kitchen garden manual 8. The poetics of the bower: Keats, Coleridge, and Hemans Conclusion Bibliography.