The Writing Of Rural England, 1500-1800 Book

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction
1	Feudalism and Beyond: the Anxiety of Change	1
	Utopia	2
	Of Rent Raisers	4
	A Lantern for Landlords	5
	A New Way to Pay Old Debts	9
	The History of Myddle	12
	The Deserted Village	13
	The Village, Book I	24
2	The Discovery of Landscape	32
	'April' eclogue, The Shepheardes Calender	34
	The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (The New Arcadia)	38
	The Survey of Cornwall	39
	'A Description of Romney Marsh'	41
	On Westwell Downs	42
	A Contemplation on Basset's Down Hill	43
	Cooper's Hill	44
	The Great Journey	53
	Letter to William Shenstone	55
	Observations on the River Wye ... relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty	58
3	The Country House	63
	The Description of Cookham	64
	To Penshurst	70
	To Saxham	73
	Of a Country House	75
	To Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington, Of the Uses of Riches	79
	Crumble-Hall	84
	A Description of Millenium Hall	89
4	Merry England: Property, Pastoral and Rural Pleasures	94
	The Anatomie of Abuses	95
	Pastorals	97
	The Kings Majesties Declaration to his Subjects, Concerning lawful Sports to be used	104
	L'Allegro	107
	Corinna's going a Maying	111
	The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home. To the Right Honourable, Mildmay Fane, Earl of Westmorland	113
	Rural Recreations: or, The Young Men and Maids' Merriment at their Dancing round a Country Maypole	115
	The Shepherd's Week	118
5	The Georgic Imperative: Labour, Thrift, Improvement	122
	Love God with all thy Heart	123
	September's Husbandry	124
	A Brief Note or Account of Mine Own Estate 1591	125
	Taylor on Thame-Isis	126
	The husbandman doth sow the seeds / And, then, on hope, til harvest feeds	128
	An Essay on Virgil's Georgics	129
	The Seasons	133
	Agriculture	135
	The Fleece, Book 2	136
	Journal	141
	A Six Months Tour through the North of England	143
6	Property and Oppression: Voices from the Margins	145
	The Diggers of Warwickshire to all other Diggers	146
	Andrew Abington's Commandments	148
	The True Levellers Standard Advanced	148
	The Thresher's Labour	158
	The Woman's Labour	165
	Clifton Hill	169
	Letter from the Combined of Cheshunt to Oliver Cromwell Esq., of Cheshunt Park	176
7	Gardens: Public and Private Pleasures	179
	Essay on Modern Gardening	180
	Spring	185
	To the Memory of a Lady lately deceased: a monody	188
	William Shenstone's correspondence	191
	Plan and description of the estate of William Shenstone, called the Leasowes near Halesowen, Worcestershire	195
	An Elegy to William Shenstone, Esq; Of the Lessowes	198
	The Spiritual Quixote; or, The Summer's Ramble of Mr. Geoffry Wildgoose. A Comic Romance	202
	Notes	206
	Index to Editorial Matter	273