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The Cambridge companion to eighteenth-century poetry
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This volume analyses major premises, preoccupations, and practices of English poets writing from 1700 to the 1790s. The essays cover large poetic themes such as nature, and political passions and a...
This volume analyses major premises, preoccupations, and practices of English poets writing from 1700 to the 1790s. The essays cover large poetic themes such as nature, and political passions and also explore historical developments in poetry.
Details
- Creator
- edited by John Sitter
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2006]
- ©2006
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xix, 290 pages)
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9781139000130, 1139000136, 9780521650908
- OCLC
- ocn723454170
- "Cambridge collections online."
- Title from home page (viewed Jan. 28, 2011).
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Introduction / John Sitter -- Couplets and conversation / J. Paul Hunter -- Political passions / Christine Gerrard -- Publishing and reading poetry / Barbara M. Benedict -- The city in eighteenth-century poetry / Brean Hammond -- "Nature" poetry / Tim Fulford -- Questions in poetics / Eighteenth-century women poets and readers / Claudia Thomas Kairoff -- Creating a national poetry / David Fairer -- The return to the ode / Ralph Cohen -- A poetry of absence / David B. Morris -- The poetry of sensibility / Patricia Meyer Spacks -- "Pre-Romanticism" and the ends of eighteenth-century poetry / Jennifer Keith