TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gifford, Terry
TI  - Pastoral
SN  - 9780415147330
U1  - 809.933 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Oxon
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Literary form
KW  - Pastoral literature, English
N2  - Pastoral is a succinct and up-to-date introductory text to the history, major writers and critical issues of this genre. Terry Gifford clarifies the different uses of pastoral covering:

the history of the genre from its classical origins to Elizabethan drama, through eighteenth-century pastoral poetry to contemporary American nature writing
the pastoral impulse of retreat and return, beginning with constructions of Arcadia and using a combination of close reading of quoted texts, cultural studies and eco-criticism
post-pastoral texts with a look at writers, who Gifford argues, have discovered ways of reconnecting us with our natural environment
ER  -