The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century PoetryJohn Sitter Cambridge University Press, 26 mrt 2001 The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry analyzes major premises, preoccupations, and practices of English poets writing from 1700 to the 1790s. These specially-commissioned essays avoid familiar categories and single-author approaches to look at the century afresh. Chapters consider such large poetic themes as nature, the city, political passions, the relation of death to desire and dreams, appeals to an imagined future, and the meanings of 'sensibility'. Other chapters explore historical developments such as the connection between poetic couplets and conversation, the conditions of publication, changing theories of poetry and imagination, growing numbers of women poets and readers, the rise of a self-consciously national tradition, and the place of lyric poetry in thought and practice. The essays are well supported by supplementary material including a chronology of the period and detailed guides to further reading. Altogether the volume provides an invaluable resource for scholars and students. |
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... asthe “World's great Oracle inTimes tocome”(line382). Such optimism often beginsbut does notendonly in nationalism: Oh stretchthy Reign, fair Peace! from Shore toShore, Till Conquest cease, and Slav'ry benomore: Till the freed Indians ...
... asthe “World's great Oracle inTimes tocome”(line382). Such optimism often beginsbut does notendonly in nationalism: Oh stretchthy Reign, fair Peace! from Shore toShore, Till Conquest cease, and Slav'ry benomore: Till the freed Indians ...
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... asthe script of a play is broughttolifeby imaginative interpretation, and thefull realizationof theseeffects often requiresa readinesstogo beneath theplacidsurfacesof eighteenthcentury urbanity. When Swift writes, inVersesontheDeath ...
... asthe script of a play is broughttolifeby imaginative interpretation, and thefull realizationof theseeffects often requiresa readinesstogo beneath theplacidsurfacesof eighteenthcentury urbanity. When Swift writes, inVersesontheDeath ...
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... asthe craftsmanwho broughtthe couplet –already the dominant form of English poetry for morethan a century –toits most finished state of formal perfection and atthe same time popularized its accessible conversational ease. Before ...
... asthe craftsmanwho broughtthe couplet –already the dominant form of English poetry for morethan a century –toits most finished state of formal perfection and atthe same time popularized its accessible conversational ease. Before ...
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... asthe popular quickreference term for pentameter couplets generally. But both longerand shortercouplets (that is,of moreor less than five feet)were also widely employed, pairing lines asshort asa single footoras longas six orseven feet ...
... asthe popular quickreference term for pentameter couplets generally. But both longerand shortercouplets (that is,of moreor less than five feet)were also widely employed, pairing lines asshort asa single footoras longas six orseven feet ...
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Inhoudsopgave
Political passions | |
CHRISTINE GERRARD 4 Publishing and reading | |
The city in eighteenthcentury poetry | |
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Eighteenthcentury women poets and readers | |
Creating | |
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A poetry ofabsence DAVID B MORRIS 12 The poetry of sensibility | |
Index | |
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