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Chapter 11 - Twentieth-Century Georgic

V. Sackville-West

from Part II - Times

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2022

By
Juan Christian Pellicer
Edited by
Paddy Bullard
Paddy Bullard
Affiliation:
University of Reading
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Summary

Vita Sackville-West’s book-length blank verse poems The Land (1926) and The Garden (1946) are unique in English poetry as the twentieth century’s sole exemplars of Virgilian formal georgic. This chapter discusses both poems in their historical context, reading them as distinguished receptions of classical as well as English literary models. The chapter focuses on Sackville-West’s recalibrations of Virgil, and assesses the implications of her work on conceptions of the georgic genre with regard to didacticism, linguistic experiment, aesthetic achievement and ideas about empire and national identity.

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Vita Sackville-WestVirgilgeorgic poetry in the twentieth centuryGeorgian poetryModernism
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A History of English Georgic Writing , pp. 235 - 254
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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