THE EVOLUTION OF ESTATE POETRY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE

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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.

Anahtar Kelimeler

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

THE EVOLUTION OF ESTATE POETRY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE

Öz

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.

Anahtar Kelimeler

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

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