This volume analyzes major premises, preoccupations, and practices of a wide range of English poets writing from 1700 to the 1790s, including Pope and Thomson, Anna Seward and Erasmus Darwin. Specially commissioned essays by leading scholars avoid familiar categories and single-author approaches to consider such large poetic themes as nature, the city, political passions, the relation of death to desire and dreams, the rise of a national tradition, appeals to an imagined future, and the meanings of "sensibility." The essays are supported by a chronology and guides to further reading.
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"The essays in this volume provides useful and accessible background material for students of 18th-century poetry...Recommanded for all academic collections, undergraduate and graduate." CHOICE Jan 2002
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This volume analyzes major premises, preoccupations, and practices of a wide range of English poets writing from 1700 to the 1790s, including Pope and Thomson, Anna Seward and Erasmus Darwin. Specially-commissioned essays by leading scholars avoid familiar categories and single-author approaches to consider such large poetic themes as nature, the city, political passions, the relation of death to desire and dreams, the rise of a national tradition, appeals to an imagined future, and the meanings of 'sensibility'. The essays are supported by a chronology and guides to further reading.
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Writing and talking were closer in the early eighteenth century than they are today - and so were poetry and prose. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ode writers, lesser odes, sublime ode, poetical character, poetic faculty, poetic authority Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Clarendon Press, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Charlotte Smith, Thomas Gray, Paradise Lost, Joseph Warton, Poetical Works, Lady Mary, James Thomson, John Gay, William Collins, Yale University Press, Several Occasions, William Cowper, Cornell University Press, Edward Young, Gentleman's Magazine, Mark Akenside, New Haven, Princeton University Press, Hannah More New!
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Writing and talking were closer in the early eighteenth century than they are today - and so were poetry and prose. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ode writers, lesser odes, sublime ode, poetical character, poetic faculty, poetic authority Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Clarendon Press, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Charlotte Smith, Thomas Gray, Paradise Lost, Joseph Warton, Poetical Works, Lady Mary, James Thomson, John Gay, William Collins, Yale University Press, Several Occasions, William Cowper, Cornell University Press, Edward Young, Gentleman's Magazine, Mark Akenside, New Haven, Princeton University Press, Hannah More New!
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- Odes on Various Subjects (Augustan Reprint Series) by Joseph Warton on 6 pages
- Wordsworth's Pope: A Study in Literary Historiography (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism) by Robert J. Griffin on 4 pages
- Britannia's Issue: The Rise of British Literature from Dryden to Ossian by Howard D. Weinbrot on 4 pages
- The Patriot Opposition to Walpole: Politics, Poetry, and National Myth, 1725-1742 by Christine Gerrard on page 59, page 61, and page 198
- Poems and Songs by Robert Burns on page 106, page 130, and page 278
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- Women, Authorship and Literary Culture, 1690 - 1740 by Sarah Prescott on 4 pages
- Women and Poetry, 1660-1750 by David E. Shuttleton in Table of Contents, page 221, and Back Matter
- Pope to Burney, 1714-1779: Scriblerians to Bluestockings (Transitions) by Moyra Haslett in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Cambridge Companion to Dante (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Rachel Jacoff in Front Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Derek Attridge in Back Matter
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