The poetics of empire : a study of James Grainger's The sugar-cane / John Gilmore.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-332) and index.

Sugar-Cane: A Poem 86 -- Grainger's Preface to the 1764 edition 88 -- Grainger's Notes to The Sugar-Cane 165 -- Appendix I "Great Homer deignd to sing of little Mice" 199 -- Appendix II Bryan and Pereene 202 -- Appendix III Colonel Martin's directions for planting and sugar-making 205 -- Appendix IV Ramsay's account of a plantation day 208.

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First published in 1764, The Sugar-Cane is a major work in the history of Anglophone Caribbean literature. It is the only poem written in the Caribbean before the Twentieth Century to achieve a place in the Western ''canon''. Grainger sought to interpret his personal experience of the Caribbean through his wide and deep reading in literature, from the Greeks to Milton. Grainger wrote a ''West India Georgic'', challenging assumptions about poetic diction and the proper subject matter of poetry, and boldly asserting the importance of the Caribbean to the Eighteenth Century British empire. This.

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