English Department University of Ottawa Ottawa, ON Canada, K1N 6N5 idennis@uottawa.ca But let us approach “progress” backwards, along lines of development and filiation, towards a half-forgotten aesthetic innovation. I begin with a twentieth-century operatic masterpiece, and end at a minor, late-eighteenth-century poem, its ancestor. There I stop, confident that my readership in Anthropoetics, at least, … Continue reading The Pastoral Victim’s Progress: Crabbe to Britten