ENG308Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Mail Coach, Elegy, Industrial Revolution
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Published in 1849 in a magazine called blackwood edinburgh magazine. Two essays that come together: english mail coach and a vision of sudden death. Mail coach: carriage drawn by a horse that carries the mail. More in keeping with decorum and propriety of the upper class to sit inside. Because he loved the feel of nature passing him by and imagining he could feel the breathe of the horses, he preferred to sit on top of the carriage. Dq takes not of the fact that travel by horse and carriage is being displaced by the train. Dq would hitch rides with the mail coach and participate in delivering the mail. Sentimental nostalgia of the carriage and the elegy. The railways had spread across all of england. The mail coach at this point was virtually sidelined. One of the changes involved the de-valuing of manual labour in favour of scientific, agricultural, and economic advances.
