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Author Gilmore, John, 1956-

Title The poetics of empire : a study of James Grainger's The sugar-cane / John Gilmore
Published London ; New Brunswick, NJ : Athlone Press ; Somerset, N.J. : Distributed in the U.S. by Transaction Publishers, 2000

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Description 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
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Subject Grainger, James, 1721?-1766. Sugar cane
SUBJECT Grainger, James. Sugar-cane. swd
Subject Didactic poetry, English -- History and criticism
Plantation life in literature.
Sugarcane industry -- Poetry
Imperialism in literature.
Agriculture in literature.
Plantation life -- Poetry
Imperialism -- Poetry
Sugarcane -- Poetry
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
Agriculture in literature
Didactic poetry, English
Imperialism
Imperialism in literature
Literature
Plantation life
Plantation life in literature
Sugarcane
Sugarcane industry
SUBJECT Caribbean Area -- In literature
Caribbean Area -- Poetry
Subject Caribbean Area
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Poetry
Form Electronic book
Author Grainger, James, 1721?-1766. Sugar cane
LC no. 99054614
ISBN 1847143822
9781847143822
1281291781
9781281291783
9786611291785
6611291784