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Shepherd’s Week : mock classical poems in pastoral setting, by John Gay (see Pope Alexander).

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... 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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