English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789

2014-10-13 Literary Criticism

Author : David Fairer
Release : 2014-10-13
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789 by : David Fairer

Download or read book English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789 written by David Fairer. This book was released on 2014-10-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry

2001-03-26 Literary Criticism

Author : John Sitter
Release : 2001-03-26
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry written by John Sitter. This book was released on 2001-03-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Eighteenth Century English Poetry

2016-07-01 Literary Criticism

Author : Nalini Jain
Release : 2016-07-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 715/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Eighteenth Century English Poetry written by Nalini Jain. This book was released on 2016-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of 18th-century English poetry is extensively annotated for a new generation of readers. It combines the scope of a period anthology with the detailed annotations of an authoritative single-author edition. Selected poets include John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, John Dryden, Jonathan Swift, Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, Joseph Addison, Alexander Pope and William Cowper. The guiding principle of the annotation is one of thoroughness: the editors concentrate on works where the meanings have changed, on primary allusions and on relevant details of social and political history.

Rural Life in Eighteenth-Century English Poetry

1995 Literary Criticism

Author : John Goodridge
Release : 1995
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Rural Life in Eighteenth-Century English Poetry by : John Goodridge

Download or read book Rural Life in Eighteenth-Century English Poetry written by John Goodridge. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent research into a self-taught tradition of English rural poetry has begun to offer a radically new dimension to our view of the role of poetry in the literary culture of the eighteenth century. In this important new study John Goodridge offers a detailed reading of key rural poems of the period, examines the ways in which eighteenth-century poets adapted Virgilian Georgic models, and reveals an illuminating link between rural poetry and agricultural and folkloric developments. Goodridge compares poetic accounts of rural labour by James Thomson, Stephen Duck, and Mary Collier, and makes a close analysis of one of the largely forgotten didactic epics of the eighteenth century, John Dyer's The Fleece. Through an exploration of the purpose of rural poetry and how it relates to the real world, Goodridge breaks through the often brittle surface of eighteenth-century poetry, to show how it reflects the ideologies and realities of contemporary life.

Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetry

2009-02-17 Literary Criticism

Author : Patricia Meyer Spacks
Release : 2009-02-17
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 628/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetry written by Patricia Meyer Spacks. This book was released on 2009-02-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetry recaptures for modern readers the urgency, distinctiveness and rewarding nature of this challenging and powerful body of poetry. An essential guide to reading eighteenth-century poetry, written by world-renowned critic, Patricia Meyer Spacks Exposes the multiplicity of forms, tones, and topics engaged by poets during this period Provides in-depth analysis of poems by established figures such as Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, as well as work by less familiar figures, including Anne Finch and Mary Leapor A broadly chronological structure incorporates close reading alongside insightful contextual and historical detail Captures the power and uniqueness of eighteenth-century poetry, creating an ideal guide for those returning to this period, or delving into it for the first time

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