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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... the voice of Father Thames,Popeimagines Britain 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 ...
... the voice of Father Thames,Popeimagines Britain 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 ...
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... the throne” andeventually “destroythem both.” Churchill'ssatireis not only ... the future may work toshow the danger or degradation ofacurrent condition. Thus atthe ... from Goldsmith's conviction that urbanization and “luxury”would ruin ...
... the throne” andeventually “destroythem both.” Churchill'ssatireis not only ... the future may work toshow the danger or degradation ofacurrent condition. Thus atthe ... from Goldsmith's conviction that urbanization and “luxury”would ruin ...
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John Sitter. Readers of Pope generally associate his invocation of the future with a growing pessimism that culminates in the ... from the “Great Anna” who takes tea and counsel at Hampton Courtin The Rape of theLock (first published in 1712) ...
John Sitter. Readers of Pope generally associate his invocation of the future with a growing pessimism that culminates in the ... from the “Great Anna” who takes tea and counsel at Hampton Courtin The Rape of theLock (first published in 1712) ...
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... the poetry of earlier ages intimidating. The “history problem” is not so ... from the public figure, and what does the speaker need protection from? Why ... an opening set of lines? Why is this personal frustration a.
... the poetry of earlier ages intimidating. The “history problem” is not so ... from the public figure, and what does the speaker need protection from? Why ... an opening set of lines? Why is this personal frustration a.
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... from his Republic,but therehave been times and places in historywhen poetry was centralto the vitalityofa culture –when poetswere taken seriously as culturalspokespeople and when theywere widely enough read to have a significant impact ...
... from his Republic,but therehave been times and places in historywhen poetry was centralto the vitalityofa culture –when poetswere taken seriously as culturalspokespeople and when theywere widely enough read to have a significant impact ...
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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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