Shepherd’s Week : mock classical poems in pastoral setting, by John Gay (see Pope Alexander).
... occupations and mental pursuits of the town and it is accordingly only with this part of life that eighteenth-century poetry deals. The country is only treated as a subject of ridicule as in Gay's Shepherd's Week or of purely conventional description as in Pope's Pastorals and Windsor Forest. 1 3d As a natural result of this, the exclusion of external Nature. The sense of natural beauty is quite ...
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