This collection of essays reassesses the importance of verse as a medium in the long eighteenth century, and as an invitation for readers to explore many of the less familiar figures dealt with, alongside the received names of the standard criticism of the period.
Зміст
Acknowledgements
Authors ‘ ‘ Biographies
Professor Bill Overton, 1946-2012: A Personal Memoir; Hermann Josef Real
Introduction; Allan Ingram and Joanna Fowler
PART I: FORM AND INFLUENCE
Pope ‘ ‘s Horatian Voice; Nigel Wood
Celebrating Universal Beauty: Henry Brooke ‘ ‘s In-between Poetics; John Baker
Argumentative Emphases in Pope ‘ ‘s An Essay on Man; Tom Jones
‘ ‘Stricken Deer and Digressive Diplomacy ‘ ‘: The Influence of Matthew Prior upon William Cowper; Conrad Brunström
PART II: SCIENCE AND NATURE
‘ ‘When Universal Nature I Survey ‘ ‘: Philosophical Poetry Before 1750; Megan Kitching
Metering Mineral Resources: Verse Jewels on Earth ‘ ‘s Treasures; Kevin Cope
Deserted Village and Animated Nature: An Ecocritical Approach to Oliver Goldsmith; Brycchan Carey
Footnotes to a Nation: Richard Llwyd ‘ ‘s Beaumaris Bay (1800); Elizabeth Edwards
PART III: WOMEN ‘ ‘S VERSE AND GENRES
‘ ‘I wish the child, I call my own ‘ ‘: [Pro]Creative Experience in Eighteenth-Century Poetry; Ashleigh Blackwood
Figs and Fame: Envisioning the Future in Women ‘ ‘s Poetry; Mascha Hansen
Women Poets and the Mock-Heroic Elegy; Joanna Fowler
PART IV: SELF AND OTHERS
Getting Personal: Swift ‘ ‘s Non-Public Poetry; Allan Ingram
Blind Woman on the Rampage: Priscilla Pointon ‘ ‘s Grand Tour of the Midlands and the question of the legitimacy of sources for biography; Chris Mounsey
‘ ‘What a Creature is Man ‘ ‘: The Melancholia, Literary Ambition, and Manly Fortitude of Robert Burns; Leigh Wetherall Dickson
Bibliography
Index
Про автора
John Baker, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France Conrad Brunström, Maynooth University, Ireland Ashleigh Blackwood, University of Northumbria, UK Brycchan Carey, Kingston University, UK Kevin Cope, Louisiana State University, USA Elizabeth Edwards, University of Wales, UK Joanna Fowler, University of Loughborough, UK Mascha Hansen, University of Greifswald, Germany Allan Ingram, University of Northumbria, UK Tom Jones, University of St Andrews, UK Megan Kitching Queen Mary, University of London, UK Chris Mounsey, University of Winchester, UK Hermann Josef Real, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Germany Leigh Wetherall Dickson, Northumbria University, UK Nigel Wood, Loughborough University, UK
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