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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... contemporary London. The poem startsby assuming that readers alreadyknow somethingabout –mayevenhave been talking among themselves about– the contemporary world of writing and rivalry, andthe poet moves swiftlyfrom description ...
... contemporary London. The poem startsby assuming that readers alreadyknow somethingabout –mayevenhave been talking among themselves about– the contemporary world of writing and rivalry, andthe poet moves swiftlyfrom description ...
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... contemporary archives. Theworld of conversation presumed a nationof readers. Poemsin anyage can be about many things– everything really that human beings thinkabout or respond to. But inpractice, thesubject matter ofpoetryis heavily ...
... contemporary archives. Theworld of conversation presumed a nationof readers. Poemsin anyage can be about many things– everything really that human beings thinkabout or respond to. But inpractice, thesubject matter ofpoetryis heavily ...
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... contemporary behavior more generally, a survey of elegant habits in the leisureclassand an examination of luxurious tastes and desires, anda representation of modern conversation. Thepoem was writtenfor rhetorical purposes far larger ...
... contemporary behavior more generally, a survey of elegant habits in the leisureclassand an examination of luxurious tastes and desires, anda representation of modern conversation. Thepoem was writtenfor rhetorical purposes far larger ...
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... contemporary figure addressing someone else(as we have seen inPope's Eloisato Abelard, and which is brilliantly illustratedin LadyMary Wortley Montagu's Epistlefrom Mrs.Yonge to her Husband). How close theverse epistleis to an imitation ...
... contemporary figure addressing someone else(as we have seen inPope's Eloisato Abelard, and which is brilliantly illustratedin LadyMary Wortley Montagu's Epistlefrom Mrs.Yonge to her Husband). How close theverse epistleis to an imitation ...
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... contemporary everyday life, tended to dwell moreon the particular, the personal,the individual, andthe subjective; in a sense,it claimed theseinterests fromotherliterary forms, andwhen (in the Prefaceto the second editionofLyrical ...
... contemporary everyday life, tended to dwell moreon the particular, the personal,the individual, andthe subjective; in a sense,it claimed theseinterests fromotherliterary forms, andwhen (in the Prefaceto the second editionofLyrical ...
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CHRISTINE GERRARD 4 Publishing and reading | |
The city in eighteenthcentury poetry | |
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Eighteenthcentury women poets and readers | |
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A poetry ofabsence DAVID B MORRIS 12 The poetry of sensibility | |
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