The poetics of empire : a study of James Grainger's The sugar-cane
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
eBook, English, 2000
Athlone Press ; Distributed in the U.S. by Transaction Publishers, London, New Brunswick, NJ, 2000
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (x, 342 pages)
9781847143822, 9781281291783, 9786611291785, 1847143822, 1281291781, 6611291784
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"The Sugar -Cane" - a poem; Grainger's preface to the 1764 edition; Book I; Book II; Book III; Book IV; Grainger's notes to "The Sugar-Cane". Appendices: "Great Homer deigned to sing of little mice"; Bryan and Pereene; Colonel Martin's directions for planting and sugar-making; Ramsay's account of plantation day. Additional notes to "The Sugar-Cane".
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English