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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... poets than their sense ofthe pastand appetite fornews– traits which we partly share – istheir tendencyto look toward the future. In ourtime the future haslong since absconded from poetry, moving into theprecincts of sciencefiction, and ...
... poets than their sense ofthe pastand appetite fornews– traits which we partly share – istheir tendencyto look toward the future. In ourtime the future haslong since absconded from poetry, moving into theprecincts of sciencefiction, and ...
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... poem itself “shall ... / Pursue the triumph, andpartake thegale”of Bolingbroke's resuscitation. The respective ... poetry dominates the end of The Task, the blank versepoem of over5,000 lines that Cowper began inthe fall of 1783 ...
... poem itself “shall ... / Pursue the triumph, andpartake thegale”of Bolingbroke's resuscitation. The respective ... poetry dominates the end of The Task, the blank versepoem of over5,000 lines that Cowper began inthe fall of 1783 ...
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... of poetic behavior. “For he is a mixture of gravity and waggery,” Christopher Smart wrote in praising his cat ... poetry of thewitty “Metaphysical” poetry fromDonne to Cowley was a complaint against inauthentic emotion. But it may be ...
... of poetic behavior. “For he is a mixture of gravity and waggery,” Christopher Smart wrote in praising his cat ... poetry of thewitty “Metaphysical” poetry fromDonne to Cowley was a complaint against inauthentic emotion. But it may be ...
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... poetry and prose. A variety of institutions, but especially the urban coffee houses which hosted continuous conversation ... for poets to tackle, and readers regularly talkedin publicplaces about their reading. Conversation was a form of ...
... poetry and prose. A variety of institutions, but especially the urban coffee houses which hosted continuous conversation ... for poets to tackle, and readers regularly talkedin publicplaces about their reading. Conversation was a form of ...
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... poets who collected kindred spirits), and thenearly thirty volumes of Poems on Affairsof State that resurrectedthepolitical issuesof the previous generation. Andof course volumesofpoems by individualpoets were continually appearing ...
... poets who collected kindred spirits), and thenearly thirty volumes of Poems on Affairsof State that resurrectedthepolitical issuesof the previous generation. Andof course volumesofpoems by individualpoets were continually appearing ...
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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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