Screen LibraryA companion to eighteenth-century poetry
This broad-ranging Companion gives readers a thorough grounding in both the background and the substance of eighteenth-century poetry in all its rich variety. An up-to-date and wide-ranging guide to eighteenth-century poetry. Reflects the dramatic transformation which has taken place in the study of...
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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This broad-ranging Companion gives readers a thorough grounding in both the background and the substance of eighteenth-century poetry in all its rich variety. An up-to-date and wide-ranging guide to eighteenth-century poetry. Reflects the dramatic transformation which has taken place in the study of eighteenth-century poetry over the past two decades. Opens with a section on contexts, discussing poetry's relationships with patriotism, politics, science, and the visual arts, for example. Discusses poetry by male and female poets from all walks of life. Includes numerous close readings of indivi. |
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Title from e-book home page (publisher website, viewed Mar. 19, 2008). Published on the Blackwell Reference Online website. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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9781405113168 (electronic) 1405113162 (electronic) 9781405171922 (electronic bk.) 1405171928 (electronic bk.) 9781405168717 1405168714 9780470996638 0470996633 |
| Index Number: | PR553 |
| CLC: | K835.615.6 |
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Introduction / Christine Gerrard -- Part I: Contexts and Perspectives. 1. Poetry, Politics and the Rise of Party / Christine Gerrard -- 2. Poetry, Politics, and Empire / Suvir Kaul -- 3. Poetry and Science / Clark Lawlor -- 4. Poetry and Religion / Emma Mason -- 5. Poetic Enthusiasm / John D. Morillo -- 6. Poetry and the Visual Arts / Robert Jones -- 7. Poetry, Popular Culture, and the Literary Marketplace / George Justice -- 8. Women Poets and their Writing in Eighteenth-Century Britain / Charlotte Grant -- 9. Poetry, Sentiment, and Sensibility / Jennifer Keith. Part II: Readings. 10. John Gay, The Shepherd's Week / Mina Gorji -- 11. Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock and "Eloisa to Abelard" / Valerie Rumbold -- 12. Jonathan Swift, The "Stella" Poems / Ros Ballaster -- 13. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Six Town Eclogues and Other Poems / Isobel Grundy -- 14. James Thomson, The Seasons / Christine Gerrard -- 15. Stephen Duck, The Thresher's Labour, and Mary Collier, The Woman's Labour / John Goodridge -- 16. Mary Leapor, "Crumble-Hall" / David Fairer -- 17. Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of Imagination / Adam Rounce -- 18. Samuel Johnson, London and The Vanity of Human Wishes / David F. Venturo -- 19. William Collins, "Ode on the Poetical Character" / John Sitter -- 20. Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard / Suvir Kaul -- 21. Christopher Smart, Jubilate Agno / Chris Mounsey -- 22. Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, and George Crabbe, The Village / Caryn Chaden -- 23. William Cowper, The Task / Freya Johnston -- 24. Robert Burns, "Tam o' Shanter" / Murray Pittock. Part III: Forms and Genres. 25. Rhyming Couplets and Blank Verse / Richard Bradford -- 26. Epic and Mock-Heroic / Richard Terry -- 27. Verse Satire / Brean Hammond -- 28. The Ode / Margaret M. Koehler -- 29. The Georgic / Juan Christian Pellicer -- 30. The Verse Epistle / Bill Overton. Part IV: Themes and Debates. 31. The Constructions of Femininity / Kathryn R. King -- 32. Whig and Tory Poetics / Abigail Williams -- 33. The Classical Inheritance / David Hopkins -- 34 Augustanism and Pre-Romanticism / Thomas Woodman -- 35 Recovering the Past: Shakespeare, Spenser, and British Poetic Tradition / Carolyn D. Williams -- 36 The Pleasures and Perils of the Imagination / Paul Baines -- 37 The Sublime / Shaun Irlam -- 38 Poetry and the City / Markman Ellis -- 39 Cartography and the Poetry of Place / Rachel Crawford -- 40 Rural Poetry and the Self-Taught Tradition / Bridget Keegan -- 41 Poetry Beyond the English Borders / Gerard Carruthers. |