ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GEORGIC
From Latin geōrgicus, from Greek geōrgikos, from geōrgos farmer, from gē land, earth + -ourgos, from ergon work.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GEORGIC»
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georgic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
georgic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Georgic Modernity and British Romanticism: Poetry and the ...
Kevis Goodman traces connections between georgic verse and developments in other spheres that were placing unprecedented emphasis on mediation from the late seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries.
2
Newman's Visionary
Georgic: A Reading of Parochial Sermons
Building upon the evidence that John Henry Newman's Parochial Sermons is a georgic (Lams, 2004), the current book defines and discusses the visionary georgic, a subset of the genre whose exemplars include Lucretius' De rerum natura and ...
3
Newman's Anglican
Georgic: Parochial Sermons
As this book shows, Newman is equally concerned to embolden his audience for the practice of authentic Christianity and to warn them against the age's schismatic preference for private religious emotion over revealed doctrine.
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Australian Migrant Ships 1946-1977
On 1 1 December 1942, Georgic left Karachi under its own power for Bombay,
where it was drydocked for further repairs to the hull. Leaving there on 20
January 1943, Georgic arrived safely back in Liverpool on 1 March. Georgic was
then ...
Winner of the G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction.
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Renaissance Historicism: Selections from English Literary ...
New Science and the Georgic Revolution in Seventeenth-Century English
Literature ANTHONY LOW IF one were to believe historians of the georgic,
Vergil's middle poem interested scarcely anyone between the Augustan age of
Rome and ...
Arthur F. Kinney, Dan S. Collins, 1987
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The Fourth
Georgic of Virgil ... with Illustrations from ...
16. THE. FOURTH. GEORGIC. or. VIRGIL. (22) Aratrum,wheele plough,
containing all the parts of the other, andacoulter (culter)be- (23) Aratar, a
loughman or a sides, in front of the ploughing ox, bot of which are share. shown
by the engraving.
Virgil, Robert Millington MILLINGTON, 1870
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God Speed the Plough: The Representation of Agrarian ...
Yet the wealth of writing on husbandry throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries, and the contemporaneous currency of classical georgic models,
suggests that Addison's analysis may have served to obscure the earlier
significance ...
9
The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell
Dryden avoided obvious epigrammatic mixture, yet retained the new scale of
economic compression.10 PASTORAL AND GEORGIC Turning to genres of
middle size, one finds the main plot of the seventeenth century to be a bold
revaluation ...
10
Reading London: Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government ...
The labels “mock” or “anti” (i.e., mock-heroic, mock-georgic, anti-pastoral) are
frequently placeholders for an emergent interpretation of gay's complexity. The
adjectival “mock,” when yoked to “georgic,” suggests that the mode is precisely
not ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GEORGIC»
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georgic is used in the context of the following news items.
'Impressionism and the Caribbean: Francisco Oller and His …
These are georgic pictures—related to work—rather than pastoral landscapes. Even Oller's still lifes often have a melancholy that Cezanne's ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
Norman Lamb: more than half of Tory ministers have taken drugs
According to the book, Cameron was fined, grounded for two weeks, and given the school's traditional punishment of a “Georgic”: copying out ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
Why would the Prime Minister respect human rights? Nobody …
We do know that he was made to write a Georgic, some sort of weird repetitive writing task, which would nowadays be classed as menial and ... «Open Democracy, Jun 15»
'WREN I was a girl!': Doris, 90, shares her memories of the war and …
She said: “We were aboard the SS Georgic, which I remember was full of Italian prisoners of war on their way home. “It was very choppy though ... «Hemel Gazette, May 15»
Celebrating one of the fabulous 49
He was the tallest, and the youngest, of the 49 sent to Portsmouth Dockyard, England, in 1950 aboard the liner MV Georgic. In 1953, after five ... «Royal Gazette, Jan 15»
New cold war Intensifies with Putin's India Visit
Russia reacts by intervening militarily in Georgic and Ukraine. In response to these developments, India resorts to some deft diplomacy by not ... «The New Indian Express, Dec 14»
Cunard PR boss's journey from council house to the high seas
... was too fantastical to be true, but he'd disappear for months working as a steward onboard Cunard liners like Franconia, Caronia or Georgic. «Liverpool Echo, Nov 14»
Robert Aitken Potts Jr.
... and loyal British veteran, was most unhappy at leaving his country at such a time, but they arrived in NY in June 1939 on the MV Georgic. «Martha's Vineyard Times, Oct 14»
Poem as Prayer: Mark Wunderlich's "The Earth Avails"
Maurice Manning's extraordinary Bucolics comes to mind, then; but Wunderlich's book, so close and attentive to the land itself, is more georgic ... «Hyperallergic, Jul 14»
LOOKING BACK: Hugh R. Thomas
After graduation, he went to Georgic Tech on an athletic scholarship, but suffered a knee injury. After one year, he transferred to the University ... «Tuscaloosa News, Apr 14»
