The Land

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The Land is a long Georgian-style poem by Vita Sackville-West that lyrically celebrates the English countryside and the cycle of rural life through the seasons.

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instanceOf Georgian-style poem
long poem
poem
author Vita Sackville-West NERFINISHED
authorGender female
authorNationality British
awarded Hawthornden Prize NERFINISHED
awardYear 1927
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
firstEditionFormat print
genre Georgian poetry
pastoral poetry
hasLiterarySignificance important example of 20th-century pastoral poetry
major work in Vita Sackville-West’s oeuvre
influencedBy English rural poetry
classical pastoral tradition
language English
literaryForm narrative poem
literaryMovement Georgian poetry movement
meter blank verse
notableFor celebration of English rural traditions
detailed depiction of farming practices
part Autumn
Spring
Summer
Winter
publicationYear 1926
publisher William Heinemann NERFINISHED
setting Kent countryside
structure four books
style descriptive
lyrical
subject English countryside
agricultural year
rural life
theme cycle of the seasons
relationship between humans and landscape
traditional rural labor

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