"Ill Fares the Land": The Literary Influences and Agricultural Poetics of the Organic Husbandry Movement in the 1930s-50s.

Author / Editor
Diaper, Jeremy.

Title
"Ill Fares the Land": The Literary Influences and Agricultural Poetics of the Organic Husbandry Movement in the 1930s-50s.

Published
Literature & History 27, no. 2 (2018): 167-88.

Description
Explores the influence of the English poetic "heritage of ruralism" on the organicist movement of UK farm husbandry between the 1930s and the 1950s, including discussion of how and to what extent "Chaucer was central to John Middleton Murry's conception of an organic rural society."

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion