Chorography, Map‐Mindedness, Poetics of Place

Abstract

This chapter explores the ways in which chorographic poetry represents England in the first half of the seventeenth century. As London assumed an ever greater importance in national life, many poets saw the need to think about the relationship between people and land outside the capital. This essay explores the work of Ben Jonson, Aemilia Lanyer, Michael Drayton, and Sir John Denham, poets who all understood the fragile and complicated balance between society and nature. In doing so they were responding as well to more advanced techniques of mapping and surveying; ecological concerns; the changing nature of the politics of the country and the city; the tension between the local and the national; and the issue of the power and authority of the monarchy.

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