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The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry (Cambridge Companions to Literature)  
Author: John Sitter (Editor)
ISBN: 0521658853
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Review
"The essays in this volume provides useful and accessible background material for students of 18th-century poetry...Recommanded for all academic collections, undergraduate and graduate." CHOICE Jan 2002


Book Description
This volume analyzes major premises, preoccupations, and practices of a wide range of English poets writing from 1700 to the 1790s, including Pope and Thomson, Anna Seward and Erasmus Darwin. Specially commissioned essays by leading scholars avoid familiar categories and single-author approaches to consider such large poetic themes as nature, the city, political passions, the relation of death to desire and dreams, the rise of a national tradition, appeals to an imagined future, and the meanings of "sensibility." The essays are supported by a chronology and guides to further reading.




Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry

FROM THE PUBLISHER

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

     



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