Grongar Hill is located in the Welsh county of Carmarthenshire and was the subject of a loco-descriptive poem by John Dyer. Published in two versions in 1726, during the Augustan period, its celebration of the individual experience of the landscape makes it a precursor of Romanticism. As a prospect poem, it has been the subject of continuing debate over how far it meets artistic canons.
GrongarHill is located in the Welsh county of Carmarthenshire and was the subject of a loco-descriptive poem by John Dyer. Published in two versions in...
became a priest in the Church of England. He was most recognised for GrongarHill, one of six early poems featured in a 1726 miscellany. Longer works published...
17th century. Alexander Pope's "Windsor Forest" (1713) and John Dyer's "GrongarHill" (1726/7) are two other often mentioned examples. In following centuries...
17th century. Alexander Pope's "Windsor Forest" (1713) and John Dyer's "GrongarHill' (1762) are two other familiar examples. George Crabbe, the Suffolk regional...
feeling and moral lessons from direct observation. One was John Dyer's "GrongarHill", the other was James Thomson's "Winter", soon to be followed by all...
their feeling and moral lessons from direct observation. One was Dyer's "GrongarHill", the other was James Thomson's "Winter", soon to be followed by all...
the poem belongs to the picturesque tradition found in John Dyer's GrongarHill (1726), and the long line of topographical imitations it inspired. However...
referencing Aberglasney: "The Country Walk" about Aberglasney, and "GrongarHill" describing the Tywi valley. After ownership under mounting debts, the...
building, which once belonged to the Dyer family. It lies at the foot of GrongarHill, the celebrated subject of a poem by John Dyer published in 1726. The...
Lizard, for solo treble recorder 1998 Op. 167 Dragon Fire 1998 Op. 168 GrongarHill, a setting of sections from John Dyer's poem for baritone and piano quintet...
built Pont Fadog, Dyffryn Ardudwy. Teifi bridge, Cardigan. John Dyer - GrongarHill (included in Richard Savage’s Miscellaneous Poems and Translations by...
County, opposite to which are the Ruins of Dryslwyn Castle, and the GrongarHills, with the Towey winding to a great extent, presenting a scenery that...
neoclassical verse influenced by Alexander Pope; Colonial America John Dyer, GrongarHill, Dyer's first published work originally appeared in Richard Savage's...
and others, A New Miscellany, including the first version of Dyer's GrongarHill, which appears in a second version in Richard Savage's Miscellaneous...
country, with lamb and beef both important. In his 1726 pastoral poem "GrongarHill" the poet John Dyer refers to the valley of the River Towy as follows:...
Translations, an anthology including poems by Savage, Aaron Hill, John Dyer ("GrongarHill", his first poem, written in Pindaric style, rewritten and published...
Tunbridge [&c.] written chiefly by persons of quality. To which is added Grongarhill, a poem [by J. Dyer]. New miscellany. Lond. 1726. The norfolk poetical...
Containing the Land beneath the Sea Seren Gomer (collection of hymns including Grongar by John Edwards) 17 February – James Crichton-Stuart, politician (d. 1891)...