First edition of Green’s best-known poem. In witty octosyllabics he describes the activities and pleasures of a rural life as the best remedy for the spleen – which at this time meant boredom and melancholy. The poem is addressed to his friend Cuthbert Jackson. It was published shortly after Green’s death, with a brief preface by the MP and poet Richard Glover, to whom he had left his manuscripts. Foxon G283; Rothschild 1083.

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