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A companion to eighteenth-century poetry

This broad-ranging Companion gives readers a thorough grounding in both the background and the substance of eighteenth-century poetry in all its rich variety. An up-to-date and wide-ranging guide to eighteenth-century poetry. Reflects the dramatic transformation which has taken place in the study of eighteenth-century poetry over the past two decades. Opens with a section on contexts, discussing poetry's relationships with patriotism, politics, science, and the visual arts, for example. Discusses poetry by male and female poets from all walks of life. Includes numerous close readings of indivi
eBook, English, [2006?]
Blackwell Pub., [Malden, Mass.], [2006?]
Criticism, interpretation, etc
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9781405113168, 9781405171922, 9781405168717, 9780470996638, 1405113162, 1405171928, 1405168714, 0470996633
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Introduction / Christine Gerrard
Part I: Contexts and Perspectives. 1. Poetry, Politics and the Rise of Party / Christine Gerrard
2. Poetry, Politics, and Empire / Suvir Kaul
3. Poetry and Science / Clark Lawlor
4. Poetry and Religion / Emma Mason
5. Poetic Enthusiasm / John D. Morillo
6. Poetry and the Visual Arts / Robert Jones
7. Poetry, Popular Culture, and the Literary Marketplace / George Justice
8. Women Poets and their Writing in Eighteenth-Century Britain / Charlotte Grant
9. Poetry, Sentiment, and Sensibility / Jennifer Keith. Part II: Readings. 10. John Gay, The Shepherd's Week / Mina Gorji
11. Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock and "Eloisa to Abelard" / Valerie Rumbold
12. Jonathan Swift, The "Stella" Poems / Ros Ballaster
13. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Six Town Eclogues and Other Poems / Isobel Grundy
14. James Thomson, The Seasons / Christine Gerrard
15. Stephen Duck, The Thresher's Labour, and Mary Collier, The Woman's Labour / John Goodridge
16. Mary Leapor, "Crumble-Hall" / David Fairer
17. Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of Imagination / Adam Rounce
18. Samuel Johnson, London and The Vanity of Human Wishes / David F. Venturo
19. William Collins, "Ode on the Poetical Character" / John Sitter
20. Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard / Suvir Kaul
21. Christopher Smart, Jubilate Agno / Chris Mounsey
22. Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, and George Crabbe, The Village / Caryn Chaden
23. William Cowper, The Task / Freya Johnston
24. Robert Burns, "Tam o' Shanter" / Murray Pittock. Part III: Forms and Genres. 25. Rhyming Couplets and Blank Verse / Richard Bradford
26. Epic and Mock-Heroic / Richard Terry
27. Verse Satire / Brean Hammond
28. The Ode / Margaret M. Koehler
29. The Georgic / Juan Christian Pellicer
30. The Verse Epistle / Bill Overton. Part IV: Themes and Debates. 31. The Constructions of Femininity / Kathryn R. King
32. Whig and Tory Poetics / Abigail Williams
33. The Classical Inheritance / David Hopkins
34 Augustanism and Pre-Romanticism / Thomas Woodman
35 Recovering the Past: Shakespeare, Spenser, and British Poetic Tradition / Carolyn D. Williams
36 The Pleasures and Perils of the Imagination / Paul Baines
37 The Sublime / Shaun Irlam
38 Poetry and the City / Markman Ellis
39 Cartography and the Poetry of Place / Rachel Crawford
40 Rural Poetry and the Self-Taught Tradition / Bridget Keegan
41 Poetry Beyond the English Borders / Gerard Carruthers
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