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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...
- who
became a
priest in the
Church of England. He was most
recognised for
Grongar Hill, one of six
early poems featured in a 1726 miscellany.
Longer works...
- 17th century.
Alexander Pope's "Windsor Forest" (1713) and John Dyer's "
Grongar Hill' (1762) are two
other familiar examples.
George Crabbe, the Suffolk...
- 17th century.
Alexander Pope's "Windsor Forest" (1713) and John Dyer's "
Grongar Hill" (1726/7) are two
other often mentioned examples. In
following centuries...
- countryside, the poem
belongs to the
picturesque tradition found in John Dyer's
Grongar Hill (1726), and the long line of
topographical imitations it inspired...
- In the same work he
criticised John Dyer's
description of the view from
Grongar Hill for
giving a
distant object too much detail. Such p****ages were easy...
-
feeling and
moral lessons from
direct observation. One was John Dyer's "
Grongar Hill", 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 "
Grongar Hill", the
other was
James Thomson's "Winter", soon to be
followed by all...
- the County,
opposite to
which are the
Ruins of
Dryslwyn Castle, and the
Grongar Hills, with the
Towey winding to a
great extent,
presenting a
scenery that...
- building,
which once
belonged to the Dyer family. It lies at the foot of
Grongar Hill, the
celebrated subject of a poem by John Dyer
published in 1726....
