Originally published in 1935 by Chatto & Windus, London.
Includes index.
Contents
Proletarian literature -- Double plots : heroic and pastoral in the main plot and sub-plot -- They that have power : Twist of heroic-pastoral ideas in Shakespeare into an ironical acceptance of aristocracy -- Marvell's garden : the ideal simplicity approached by resolving contradictions -- Milton and Bentley : the pastoral of the innocence of man and nature -- The beggar's opera : mock-pastoral as the cult of independence -- Alice in Wonderland : the child as swain.
