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This chapter introduces war pastorals, poems that are concerned with the natural world, and examines several war pastorals where intertextual awareness or self-awareness usually goes deep. It tries to differentiate the widely perspectival bias of ‘eclogue’ from the generally situational bias of ‘georgic’, and also stresses that not all pastoral poetry is anti-war, and that not all war poetry is anti-pastoral.
Keywords: war pastoral; intertextual awareness; self-awareness; eclogue; georgic; pastoral poetry
Article. 10254 words.
Subjects: Literature ; Literary Studies (Poetry and Poets) ; Literary Studies (20th Century onwards)
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