Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xix, 298 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9781139000130
Series Statement:
Cambridge companions to literature
Content:
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
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015)
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Introduction : The future of eighteenth-century poetry
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Couplets and conversation
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Political passions
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Publishing and reading poetry
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The city in eighteenth-century poetry
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"Nature" poetry
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Questions in poetics : why and how poetry matters
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Eighteenth-century women poets and readers
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Creating a national poetry : the tradition of Spenser and Milton
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The return to the ode
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A poetry of absence
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The poetry of sensibility
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"Pre-Romanticism" and the ends of eighteenth-century poetry
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521650908
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521658850
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521650908
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CCOL0521650909
