John Dyer, Grongar Hill

Sandro Jung (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)

Ed. by Janet Todd, University of Cambridge
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.2: Welsh Writing and Culture, 400-present.
Vol. editors: Kirsti Bohata (Swansea University), Andrew Radford (University of Glasgow), Nicholas Seager (University of Keele), Rita Singer (Aberystwyth University)

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First circulation or publication 1726

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Grongar Hill

and

The Country Walk

are among the poems by John Dyer that have been extensively anthologised since their publication in the late 1720s.

Grongar Hill

is one of those Miltonic poems which underwent considerable revision and, for that reason, exists in three different textual variants. The first (Pindaric) version was printed in

Miscellaneous Poems and Translations

(1726), a publication in which Richard Savage collected the productions of poets such as Aaron Hill, Dyer, James Thomson and himself. The Pindaric ode version of

Grongar Hill

was significantly revised into Miltonic octosyllabics and republished in the same year. The first surviving manuscript draft of

Grongar Hill

was produced in 1716.

One of the striking features of the poem is its outspoken reverence for the

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Citation: Jung, Sandro. "Grongar Hill". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 30 October 2002 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=4882, accessed 04 May 2024.]

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