A country house poem is a poem in which the author compliments a wealthy patron or friend through a description of the patron's country house, a form popular in early seventeenth-century England. The genre can be seen as a subset of the topographical poem.
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Place of Origin Notable ExampleTo Penshurst by Ben Jonson 1 Defining TraitA poem in which the author compliments a wealthy patron or friend through description of the patron's country house 1 In the Other Atlases
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1. Country house poem - Wikipedia
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Such poems were popular in early 17th-century England.
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The model for the country house poem is Ben Jonson's To Penshurst, one of the first in this genre.
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A country house poem is a poem in which the author compliments a wealthy patron or a friend through a description of his country house.
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