"This ado in Earthing up a Carcase": Robert Blair's The Grave (1743) as Eighteenth-Century Churchyard Georgic

IF 0.4 3区社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI:10.1353/ecs.2024.a916850

James Metcalf

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Abstract

Abstract: Robert Blair's The Grave (1743) is typically read as a "graveyard poem," in which depictions of death and decay are intended to compel readers before directing their thoughts to the afterlife. This article, by contrast, reads The Grave as a churchyard variation on the contemporary georgic mode to show how the poet's labor to instruct readers on the attainment of heaven grows out of soil, dirt, dust, and ashes—the base elements that compose an earth in flux and that provide, as metaphors for life, work, and death in the poem, a georgic counterweight to the soul's heavenward flight.

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"为一具尸体掏耳朵"：罗伯特-布莱尔的《坟墓》（1743 年）作为十八世纪教堂墓地的乔治亚风格作品

摘要：罗伯特-布莱尔的《坟墓》（1743 年）通常被解读为一首 "墓地诗"，诗中对死亡和腐朽的描绘意在蛊惑读者，将他们的思绪引向来世。与此相反，本文将《坟墓》解读为当代格律诗模式的教堂墓地变体，以展示诗人如何从土壤、泥土、灰尘和灰烬--这些构成变动中的大地的基本元素--中成长起来，并在诗中作为生活、工作和死亡的隐喻，以格律诗的方式抗衡灵魂向天堂的飞翔。

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期刊介绍： As the official publication of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), Eighteenth-Century Studies is committed to publishing the best of current writing on all aspects of eighteenth-century culture. The journal selects essays that employ different modes of analysis and disciplinary discourses to explore how recent historiographical, critical, and theoretical ideas have engaged scholars concerned with the eighteenth century.