Poem: George Eliot Country
Title
Poem: George Eliot Country
Description
From this Midland scene - glum slag heaps, barge canals, gray sheep, the vivid overlap of wheat field and mustard hillside like out-of-season sunshine, the crabbed silhouette of oak trees (each joint a knot, each knot a principled demurral: tough, arthritic, stubborn as the character of her own father) - …
Creator
Amy Clampitt
Source
George Eliot Review
1985: 16, 56-57
1985: 16, 56-57
Publisher
GER and George Eliot Archive
Date
Published 1985
Digitized 2017
Digitized 2017
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Citation
Amy Clampitt, “Poem: George Eliot Country,” George Eliot Review Online, accessed March 4, 2021, https://georgeeliotreview.org/items/show/837.