"Ill Fares the Land": The Literary Influences and Agricultural Poetics of the Organic Husbandry Movement in the 1930s-50s.
- Author / Editor
- Diaper, Jeremy.
"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