THE EVOLUTION OF ESTATE POETRY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE

Year 2019, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 44 - 59, 26.12.2019

Volha Korbut Salman

Abstract

The
seventeenth century England saw the increase in the use and popularity of
estate poetry as a sub-genre of the pastoral. The paper argues that though
estate poetry contains some topics common for the genre of the georgic - the
praise of country life, the retreat from the corruption of the court, the
assembly of parallel and ideal worlds, as a contrast to the devastating reality
of the English Civil War (1642-1649) - these features have more to do with the
genre of the pastoral than with literature on the subject of husbandry. The
paper presents a contrastive study of “To Penshurst” (1616) by Ben Jonson,
which acts as the primary stage of the sub-genre, and its post Civil War
successor – Andrew Marvell’s “The Garden” (1653), as an exemplification of the
tertiary stage any sub-genre moves onto in the process of its development
according to Alastair Fowler’s system of generic transformation.

Keywords

Estate poetry, Pastoral, Georgic, Generic transformation, Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell

THE EVOLUTION OF ESTATE POETRY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE

Abstract

On yedinci yüzyıldaki İngiltere’de, malikâne
şiirinin - pastoral şiirin alt türü olarak - kullanımının ve popülaritesinin
artışı görüldü. Malikâne şiiri jeorjik şiir türünün bazı konularını
içerebilmektedir. Bunların arasında kırsal yaşamının övgüsü, kraliyet
sarayındaki yolsuzluktan çekilme, yıkıcı İngiliz İç Savaşı (1642-1649) aksine
paralel ve ideal dünyaların kuruluşu yer bulmaktadır. Makale, bu temaların
jeorjik şiirin ötesinde daha çok pastoral şiirin temaları arasına girdiğini öne
sürüyor. Makale, Alastair Fowler'in türsel değişim sistemine göre, Ben
Jonson'un “Penshurst’a” (1616) adlı şiirini, malikâne şiirinin birincil aşaması
olarak değerlendirmektedir, ve İngiliz İç Savaşından sonra yazılmış olan Andrew
Marvell'in “Bahçe” (1653) adlı şiirini, alt türünün üçüncül aşaması olarak
sunmaktadır.

Keywords

Malikâne şiiri, Pastoral şiiri, Jeorjik Şiiri, Türsel değişim, Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell

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