"Where power is absolute": Royalist politics and the improved landscape in a poem by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea.(Tribute issue to Professor J. Douglas Canfield, University of Arizona)("Upon My Lord Winchilsea's Converting the Mount in His Garden to a Terras")(Critical essay)
Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, September, 2005 by Jordan, Nicolle
Land and trees carry pronounced political weight in the poetry of Anne Finch, who entered the English literary canon as a "nature poet," but has only recently been recognized as a significant participant in political debates regarding the so-called Glorious Revolution and its aftermath. (1) The poem "Upon My Lord Winchilsea's Converting the Mount in His Garden to a Terras" (c. 1703; hereafter, "Upon My Lord Winchilsea") provides an intriguing instance of Finch's politically inflected representations of the natural environment, particularly for the ways in which it situates the land and trees of the Finch family estate within the history of England's transition from restored monarchical order to the factionalism exacerbated by the Revolution Settlement. Broadly...
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