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A 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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Somerset :
Wiley,
2013.
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| Colección: | Blackwell companions to literature and culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture; Title page; Copyright page; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: Contexts and Perspectives; 1: Poetry, Politics, and the Rise of Party; Critical Debates; The Rage of Party under Queen Anne; Hanoverians and Whigs; The Rise of Patriotism; The Collapse of the Bubble; Walpole and His Opponents; The Decline of Patriotism; Wilkes, Churchill, and the Nonsense Club; 2: Poetry, Politics, and Empire; England as the Center of the World; Key Terms: Patriotism, Liberty, Luxury, Progress; Nationalist Doubt and Poetic Ambivalence.
- The Poet as Surveyor
- of Britain and the GlobePoetry and Slavery; 3: Poetry and Science; Definitions; Physico-Theology and the New Science; Newton; The Great Chain of Being and Technology; Consuming Science; Women and Science; Politics; Satires; Natural History and Earth Sciences; Sensibility; Romanticism; 4: Poetry and Religion; Poetics; Hymnody; Biblical Paraphrase; Universe Poems; 5: Poetic Enthusiasm; Dryden and Locke; Dennis; Shaftesbury, Swift, and Astell; Pope; Midcentury Translations; Byrom and Jerningham: Two Poems Named "Enthusiasm"; Postscript: Blake; 6: Poetry and the Visual Arts.
- 7: Poetry, Popular Culture, and the Literary Marketplace8: Women Poets and Their Writing in Eighteenth-Century Britain; "Tuneful Singer, and great Winchilsea"; "Perception Exquisite": "Stella" and "Lactilla"; "A British Muse"; 9: Poetry, Sentiment, and Sensibility; PART II: Readings; 10: John Gay, The Shepherd's Week; 11: Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock and "Eloisa to Abelard"; 12: Jonathan Swift, the "Stella" Poems; "Best Pattern of true Friends, beware": The Ambivalence of Friendship; "Not the gravest of divines": The Twist in the Tale.
- 13: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Six Town Eclogues and Other Poems14: James Thomson, The Seasons; 15: Stephen Duck, The Thresher's Labour, and Mary Collier, The Woman's Labour; 16: Mary Leapor, "Crumble-Hall"; 17: Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of Imagination; Didactic Poetry; Models, Influences, Purposes; The Design of the Poem; Pleasures, Perfection, and Politics; Providence, Pleasure, and Virtue; Ridicule, "Truth," and Memory; Imagination, Creativity, and Divinity; 18: Samuel Johnson, London and The Vanity of Human Wishes; 19: William Collins, "Ode on the Poetical Character."
- Strophe: Fancy's Gift and Chosen PoetsMesode: Fancy and the Creation; Antistrophe: Milton's Paradise and Collins's Present; Analysis and Synthesis; 20: Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard; 21: Christopher Smart, Jubilate Agno; 22: Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, and George Crabbe, The Village; Views of the Poor; The Poets and Their Work; 23: William Cowper, The Task; 24: Robert Burns, "Tam o' Shanter"; PART III: Forms and Genres; 25: Rhyming Couplets and Blank Verse; 26: Epic and Mock-Heroic; Attitudes Toward Epic; Mock-Heroic; The Heroi-comical Poem.