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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... in The Fleece (), is less subtle than Pope, wholly convinced that Britain “ne'er breaks / Her solemn compacts, in the lust of rule,” and confident that the woolen trade will enrich shepherds aswell as traders: Ye too rejoice,ye swains ...
... in The Fleece (), is less subtle than Pope, wholly convinced that Britain “ne'er breaks / Her solemn compacts, in the lust of rule,” and confident that the woolen trade will enrich shepherds aswell as traders: Ye too rejoice,ye swains ...
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... in the poetic apocalypse of The Dunciad, a gloom in which neither public Flame,nor private, dares toshine; Nor humanSparkis left,norGlimpse divine! Lo! thy dreadEmpire, CHAOS! is restor'd; Light diesbefore thy uncreating word; Thy hand ...
... in the poetic apocalypse of The Dunciad, a gloom in which neither public Flame,nor private, dares toshine; Nor humanSparkis left,norGlimpse divine! Lo! thy dreadEmpire, CHAOS! is restor'd; Light diesbefore thy uncreating word; Thy hand ...
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... In the long conversational poem Table Talk (1781)Cowper sees acorrupted England probably doomedto lose itsgrandeur ... inthe fall of 1783 asaplayful assignment(a friend suggested he celebrate the inventionof thesofa, the ostensible ...
... In the long conversational poem Table Talk (1781)Cowper sees acorrupted England probably doomedto lose itsgrandeur ... inthe fall of 1783 asaplayful assignment(a friend suggested he celebrate the inventionof thesofa, the ostensible ...
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... in the same mode by other major poets who collected kindred spirits), and thenearly thirty volumes of Poems on Affairsof State ... (inthe manner ofHorace) onthe natureof poetry. He was Alexander Pope, and he was destinedto beknown asthe ...
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... inthe world, and how is its existence tied toquestionsof choice andfree will? How can theideaof evilbereconciled to the notionof agood and benevolent divine maker? What are the implications ofthe human predicamentfor everyday behavior ...
... inthe world, and how is its existence tied toquestionsof choice andfree will? How can theideaof evilbereconciled to the notionof agood and benevolent divine maker? What are the implications ofthe human predicamentfor everyday behavior ...
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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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