The Cambridge Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Poetry

The Cambridge Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Poetry
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 259
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ISBN-10 : 9781139502467
ISBN-13 : 1139502468
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Synopsis The Cambridge Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Poetry by : John Sitter

For readers daunted by the formal structures and rhetorical sophistication of eighteenth-century English poetry, this introduction by John Sitter brings the techniques and the major poets of the period 1700–1785 triumphantly to life. Sitter begins by offering a guide to poetic forms ranging from heroic couplets to blank verse, then demonstrates how skilfully male and female poets of the period used them as vehicles for imaginative experience, feelings and ideas. He then provides detailed analyses of individual works by poets from Finch, Swift and Pope, to Gray, Cowper and Barbauld. An approachable introduction to English poetry and major poets of the eighteenth century, this book provides a grounding in poetic analysis useful to students and general readers of literature.

English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789

English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 317
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ISBN-10 : 9781317892885
ISBN-13 : 1317892887
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Synopsis English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789 by : David Fairer

In recent years the canon of eighteenth-century poetry has greatly expanded to include women poets, labouring-class and provincial poets, and many previously unheard voices. Fairer’s book takes up the challenge this ought to pose to our traditional understanding of the subject. This book seeks to question some of the structures, categories, and labels that have given the age its reassuring shape in literary history. In doing so Fairer offers a fresh and detailed look at a wide range of material.

Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered

Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered
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Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Total Pages : 281
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ISBN-10 : 9781611484847
ISBN-13 : 1611484847
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Synopsis Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered by : Kate Parker

Eighteenth-Century Poetry and the Rise of the Novel Reconsidered beginswith the brute fact that poetry jostledup alongside novels in the bookstallsof eighteenth-century England. Indeed,by exploringunexpected collisions and collusionsbetween poetry and novels, this volumeof exciting, new essays offers a reconsideration of the literary and cultural history of the period. Thenovel poached from and featured poetry, and the “modern” subjects and objects privileged by “rise of the novel” scholarship are only one part of a world full of animate things and people with indistinct boundaries. Contributors: Margaret Doody, David Fairer, Sophie Gee, Heather Keenleyside, ShelleyKing, Christina Lupton, Kate Parker, Natalie Phillips, Aran Ruth, Wolfram Schmidgen, Joshua Swidzinski, and Courtney Weiss Smith.

The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse

The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 1800
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ISBN-10 : 9780191501425
ISBN-13 : 0191501425
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Synopsis The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse by : Roger Lonsdale

No previous anthology has succeeded in illustrating so thoroughly the kinds of verse actually written in the eighteenth century. The familiar tradition is fully represented by selections from such poets as Pope, Swift, Tomson, Gray, Smart, Goldsmith, Cowper, Burns, and Blake. In addition, the anthology includes verse by many forgotten writers, both men and women, from all levels of society. Although they have never figured in conventional literary history, they wrote humorous, idiosyncratic, and graphic verse about their personal experience and the world around them, in a way that should challenge received ideas about the period's restraints and inhibitions.

Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry

Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry
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Publisher : JHU Press
Total Pages : 556
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ISBN-10 : 0801881692
ISBN-13 : 9780801881695
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Synopsis Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry by : Paula R. Backscheider

Co-Winner, James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association This major study offers a broad view of the writing and careers of eighteenth-century women poets, casting new light on the ways in which poetry was read and enjoyed, on changing poetic tastes in British culture, and on the development of many major poetic genres and traditions. Rather than presenting a chronological survey, Paula R. Backscheider explores the forms in which women wrote and the uses to which they put those forms. Considering more than forty women in relation to canonical male writers of the same era, she concludes that women wrote in all of the genres that men did but often adapted, revised, and even created new poetic kinds from traditional forms. Backscheider demonstrates that knowledge of these women's poetry is necessary for an accurate and nuanced literary history. Within chapters on important canonical and popular verse forms, she gives particular attention to such topics as women's use of religious poetry to express candid ideas about patriarchy and rape; the continuing evolution and important role of the supposedly antiquarian genre of the friendship poetry; same-sex desire in elegy by women as well as by men; and the status of Charlotte Smith as a key figure of the long eighteenth century, not only as a Romantic-era poet.

The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry

The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : 0521658853
ISBN-13 : 9780521658850
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Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry by : John Sitter

This book analyzes major premises and practices of eighteenth-century English poets.

Voice and Context in Eighteenth-Century Verse

Voice and Context in Eighteenth-Century Verse
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 290
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ISBN-10 : 9781137487636
ISBN-13 : 1137487631
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Voice and Context in Eighteenth-Century Verse by : Allan Ingram

This collection of essays reassesses the importance of verse as a medium in the long eighteenth century, and as an invitation for readers to explore many of the less familiar figures dealt with, alongside the received names of the standard criticism of the period.

Points in Eighteenth-century Verse

Points in Eighteenth-century Verse
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Total Pages : 206
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105035262737
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Synopsis Points in Eighteenth-century Verse by : Iolo Aneurin Williams

Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Poetry 1660-1780 (Routledge Revivals)

Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Poetry 1660-1780 (Routledge Revivals)
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 301
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ISBN-10 : 9781317589174
ISBN-13 : 1317589173
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Synopsis Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Poetry 1660-1780 (Routledge Revivals) by : Eric Rothstein

Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Poetry 1660-1780, originally published in 1981, considers poetry written between 1660 and 1780, a period which, although largely recovered from its nineteenth-century reputation, still attracts widely varying critical responses. Abandoning the old labels such as ‘neoclassicism’, ‘romanticism’ and ‘sensibility’, the author focuses on descriptions of genres and their formal elements and traces the broader patterns of literary and historical change running through the period. Eric Rothstein describes different poetic modes- panegyric, satire, pastoral and topographical poetry, the epistle, and the ode- to suggest their aesthetical possibilities as well as their process of change. He also considers style and the uses of the past, topics which have often caused particular problems for the students of the period. What becomes clear is the extraordinary originality, flexibility and power with which Restoration and eighteenth-century poets handles the stylistic assumptions and the body of poems they inherited and employed in their own works.

A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry

A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 624
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ISBN-10 : 9781118702291
ISBN-13 : 1118702298
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Synopsis A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry by : Christine Gerrard

A COMPANION TO & EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY A COMPANION TO & EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY Edited by Christine Gerrard This wide-ranging Companion reflects the dramatic transformation that has taken place in the study of eighteenth-century poetry over the past two decades. New essays by leading scholars in the field address an expanded poetic canon that now incorporates verse by many women poets and other formerly marginalized poetic voices. The volume engages with topical critical debates such as the production and consumption of literary texts, the constructions of femininity, sentiment and sensibility, enthusiasm, politics and aesthetics, and the growth of imperialism. The Companion opens with a section on contexts, considering eighteenth-century poetry’s relationships with such topics as party politics, religion, science, the visual arts, and the literary marketplace. A series of close readings of specific poems follows, ranging from familiar texts such as Pope’s The Rape of the Lock to slightly less well-known works such as Swift’s “Stella” poems and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Town Eclogues. Essays on forms and genres, and a series of more provocative contributions on significant themes and debates, complete the volume. The Companion gives readers a thorough grounding in both the background and the substance of eighteenth-century poetry, and is designed to be used alongside David Fairer and Christine Gerrard’s Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (3rd edition, 2014).