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1 online resource (x, 342 pages) |
Contents |
Sugar-Cane: A Poem 86 -- Grainger's Preface to the 1764 edition 88 -- Grainger's Notes to The Sugar-Cane 165 -- Appendix I "Great Homer deignd to sing of little Mice" 199 -- Appendix II Bryan and Pereene 202 -- Appendix III Colonel Martin's directions for planting and sugar-making 205 -- Appendix IV Ramsay's account of a plantation day 208 |
Summary |
First published in 1764, The Sugar-Cane is a major work in the history of Anglophone Caribbean literature. It is the only poem written in the Caribbean before the Twentieth Century to achieve a place in the Western ''canon''. Grainger sought to interpret his personal experience of the Caribbean through his wide and deep reading in literature, from the Greeks to Milton. Grainger wrote a ''West India Georgic'', challenging assumptions about poetic diction and the proper subject matter of poetry, and boldly asserting the importance of the Caribbean to the Eighteenth Century British empire. This |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-332) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Grainger, James, 1721?-1766. Sugar cane
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SUBJECT |
Grainger, James. Sugar-cane. swd |
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Didactic poetry, English -- History and criticism
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Plantation life in literature.
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Sugarcane industry -- Poetry
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Imperialism in literature.
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Agriculture in literature.
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Plantation life -- Poetry
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Imperialism -- Poetry
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Sugarcane -- Poetry
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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Agriculture in literature
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Didactic poetry, English
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Imperialism
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Imperialism in literature
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Literature
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Plantation life
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Plantation life in literature
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Sugarcane
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Sugarcane industry
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Caribbean Area -- In literature
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Caribbean Area -- Poetry
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Caribbean Area
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Poetry
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Electronic book
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Author |
Grainger, James, 1721?-1766.
Sugar cane
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LC no. |
99054614 |
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1847143822 |
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9781847143822 |
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1281291781 |
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9781281291783 |
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9786611291785 |
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6611291784 |
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