Georgic

In his study of "Georgic" cults, the Syrian historian Hassan Haddad described these believers as seeking a God "whom official religion has rendered too remote and abstract".

The Guardian World News Nesrine Malik 2010

[1] Thompson: James Thomson, whose Georgic poem The Seasons was Bloomfield's inspiration as a young writer.

Letter 175 2009

Wordsworth (Bloomfield made perceptive comments about both) (Letters 35-36 and 52 and 94) as well as the Georgic verse of Thomson and Dyer, often quoted.

Introduction: Tim Fulford 2009

Bloomfield, in short, was the rural poet, admired not just for the authenticity that stemmed from his childhood experience as a rural labourer, but accepted as a master of narrative and versification — the living continuation of the Georgic and ballad traditions epitomised by James Thomson and Robert Burns.

Introduction: Tim Fulford 2009

It was in this way that The Farmer's Boy was composed, the Georgic poem on life as rural labourer.

Introduction: Tim Fulford 2009

It's a politicized Georgic celebrating the value to the labourer of the cottage garden and the village common, and attacking the improving farmers and gentry who enclose these lands.

Letter 87 2009

First, the Georgic itself gave way to newer, more urbane and urban forms.

Introduction: Tim Fulford 2009

The mingling of flora and fauna with architectonic elements (pergolas, fountains, and structural ornament) is telling. 112 In the fourth Georgic, Virgil speaks of the cells in a beehive as cubilia. 113 By ancient tradition bees were associated with knowledge and learning and were called the "birds of the muses."

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

You might have told me, Brother, in three lines, what the determination of my friends was; only, that then you would not have had room to display your pedantry by so detestable an allusion or reference to the Georgic.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

You will see by it how much his vile hint from the Georgic; and his rude one of my whining vocatives, have set me up.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006