The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century VerseRoger H. Lonsdale, Roger Lonsdale Oxford University Press, 1984 - 870 Seiten Anthologies of eighteenth-century verse have tended to confirm traditional notions of the period as one of untroubled elegance, urbanity, and decorum. Offering over 550 poems and extracts by more than 250 poets, The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse presents a truer picture of this age as a much less stable and decorous time. This extraordinarily comprehensive volume includes not only a generous selection of verse by such renowned poets as Swift, Pope, Johnson, Gray, Smart, Goldsmith, Cowper, Blake, and Burns, but also a large number of poems by lesser-known and previously ignored poets. Intermixing the familiar styles and preoccupations of "polite" taste with much less familiar verse from all social levels, it reveals the willingness of the century's poets to respond graphically, humorously, or unconventionally to all aspects of rural and urban life. Topics range from golf and hypnotism to amorous adventure and marital discord, from growing sensitivity to natural beauty to fear of the effects of the Industrial Revolution, and from the anguish of poverty and unemployment to animated political exchanges in the wake of the French Revolution. Taken together, these poems reveal that both unpredictability and familiarity played as significant a role as Augustan reason played in the world of eighteenth-century poetry. The anthology also includes a helpful introduction, notes, and a glossary. |
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... charm than all the gloss of art ; Spontaneous joys , where nature has its play , The soul adopts and owns their firstborn sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind , Unenvied ... charms are passed , for charms are 529 OLIVER GOLDSMITH.
... charm than all the gloss of art ; Spontaneous joys , where nature has its play , The soul adopts and owns their firstborn sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind , Unenvied ... charms are passed , for charms are 529 OLIVER GOLDSMITH.
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... charms are frail , When time advances and when lovers fail , She then shines forth , solicitous to bless , In all the glaring impotence of dress : Thus fares the land , by luxury betrayed , In nature's simplest charms at first arrayed ...
... charms are frail , When time advances and when lovers fail , She then shines forth , solicitous to bless , In all the glaring impotence of dress : Thus fares the land , by luxury betrayed , In nature's simplest charms at first arrayed ...
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... charms but your own - there can scarce be a doubt You will always be conquerors , conquest is sure : Use but your own charms , and proceed by my rules , Or your own better sense never taught in the schools . The wounds you give now ...
... charms but your own - there can scarce be a doubt You will always be conquerors , conquest is sure : Use but your own charms , and proceed by my rules , Or your own better sense never taught in the schools . The wounds you give now ...
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JOHN POMFRET 16671702 | 1 |
THOMAS DURFEY 16531723 | 5 |
JOHN PHILIPS 16761709 | 6 |
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