as a sub-genre of the pastoral. This paper argues that though estate poetry contains some topics common to the genre of the georgic, such topics as the praise of country life, the retreat from the corruption of the court, the construction of idyllic utopias, as a contrast to the devastating reality of the English Civil War (1642-1649) have more to do with the genre of the pastoral than with literature on the subject of husbandry. This paper presents a contrastive study of “To Penshurst” (1616) by Ben Jonson, in which the author presents Penshurst - the great Sidney country estate - and ethical, religious and interpersonal values inside its household as a paragon for the corrupted Jacobean state. Being the first and one of the most important examples of estate poetry, the poem represents the primary stage of the sub-genre, while its post Civil War successor – Andrew Marvell's “The Garden” (1653), which highlights the retreat into the ideal and harmonious world of one's soul rather than the seclusion of a country house, exemplifies the final stage any sub-genre can evolve into in the process of its development according to Alastair Fowler's system of generic transformation, elaborated in Kinds of Literature (1987).

Author Name: Volha KORBUT SALMAN

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Keywords: Estate poetry, Pastoral, Georgc, Generc transformaton, Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell, Alastar Fowler

ISSN: 2687-5586

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