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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... wind ; unmanageable steed , And feeble rider ! Hurried many a league Over the rising hills of roaring brine ... winds , Beyond the ken of shore . Ah , when will these tumultuous scenes be gone ? When shall this weary spirit , tossed with ...
... wind ; unmanageable steed , And feeble rider ! Hurried many a league Over the rising hills of roaring brine ... winds , Beyond the ken of shore . Ah , when will these tumultuous scenes be gone ? When shall this weary spirit , tossed with ...
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... wind , Oft chides his mate , and often looks behind . 20 The trickling twine glides through his glowing hand , And joy transporting flushes all the band ; Applauding shouts pursue her as she flies , And raise the wind that bears her to ...
... wind , Oft chides his mate , and often looks behind . 20 The trickling twine glides through his glowing hand , And joy transporting flushes all the band ; Applauding shouts pursue her as she flies , And raise the wind that bears her to ...
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... wind and rain ! With chinks in wall , and cracks in roof , ' Tis neither wind nor water - proof ; They say the walls will never dry . ' ' Tell them I say that's all my eye . ' " They wish you'd go and see the state They're in , before ...
... wind and rain ! With chinks in wall , and cracks in roof , ' Tis neither wind nor water - proof ; They say the walls will never dry . ' ' Tell them I say that's all my eye . ' " They wish you'd go and see the state They're in , before ...
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JOHN POMFRET 16671702 | 1 |
THOMAS DURFEY 16531723 | 5 |
JOHN PHILIPS 16761709 | 6 |
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