Windsor Forest : pastoral poem by Alexander Pope, combining descriptions of English countryside & field sports with historical, literary, & political passages.
... 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 absent from eighteenth-century poetry and we do not have even so much as the sense ...
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