Marxist Cricket? Some Versions of Pastoral in the Poetry of the Thirties

Pastoralism was a dominant strain of modern leftist thinking, living and aesthetic. The left-wing classicist is a notable feature of twentieth-century cultural ideological life. Retrogressive green country-mindedness on the Right; red utopian urbanism on the Left. On the Left, utopian hopes focused...

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Published inEcology and the Literature of the British Left pp. 177 - 192
Main Author Cunningham, Valentine
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Routledge 2012
Edition1
Subjects
Great Global Warming Swindle
Vincent Van Gogh
Dedicatory Stanzas
Village Cricket
Fine Day
Young Man
Gogh
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Wild Geranium
Welwyn Garden City
Thunder Storm
Ad Astra
Litter Louts
Animal Kingdom
Final Lesson
Social Democratic Federation
Poisonous Substances
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Summary:Pastoralism was a dominant strain of modern leftist thinking, living and aesthetic. The left-wing classicist is a notable feature of twentieth-century cultural ideological life. Retrogressive green country-mindedness on the Right; red utopian urbanism on the Left. On the Left, utopian hopes focused in Modernismus and Mechanismus. The native 'frontiersman' and 'sea-rover' are dying off as the blond Anglo-Saxon type of Englishman is replaced in English cities by a new race of dark, alien racial types, who sound, in fact, very Jewish Orwell certainly craved pastoral in the politicized and metaphorical sense and in a measure found it in the miners cottages of the north of England and in revolutionary Barcelona. A century of urban civilization has not yet materially modified the instinct of a people once devoted to agriculture and stock-breeding, to the chase, to landscape gardening, to a practical love of Nature.
ISBN:1409418227
9781409418221
1138249300
9781138249301
DOI:10.4324/9781315578675-14