Bucknell, Clare (Author)
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Volume: 36, no. 3
Issue: 3
Pages: 335-352
Publication date: 2013
Language: English
During the eighteenth century the didactic precepts of Virgil's Georgics were read as practical guidance by an emerging class of professional farmers, and a set of original vernacular georgics were written on agricultural improvement. Examining Smart's The Hop-Garden, Dodsley's Agriculture, Dyer's The Fleece and Jago's Edge-Hill, I argue that they offer a confident, progressive and scientific approach to land cultivation, revising the inherited attitudes of Virgilian georgic. I suggest, though, that this poetics of improvement provides one reason for the decline of the georgic didactic tradition, as it becomes unable to offer comprehensive instruction on a specialised field of knowledge.
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