The Shepheards Nation by Michelle O’Callaghan

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Title: The Shepheards Nation by Michelle O’Callaghan 
Summary: Michelle O’Callaghan’s book examines how a group of early 17th-century English poets especially William Browne, George Wither, and Christopher Brooke revived the poetic legacy of Edmund Spenser to shape a Spenserian pastoral community that engaged with political and cultural debates in the early Stuart period (1612–1625).
Rather than seeing pastoral poetry as merely private or leisurely, O’Callaghan argues these writers used Spenser’s legacy to comment on national identity, political culture, and the tensions between court and country life in Jacobean England.
Author: Michelle O’Callaghan
Publisher: Clarendon Press Oxford 
Year Published: 2000
Edition: 1st Edition
Dimensions: 22cm x 13.5cm 
Binding type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780198186380
Notes: 
SKU: VSS / 254 / H / 7092 / 5432
Condition 
Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Handling marks, marks
Book condition: Near fine
Binding: Intact
Pages: 272 pages
 
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