05760nam 2200745 450 99622614690331620220808181339.09781405171922 (electronic book)1-4051-6871-41-78268-455-71-4051-7192-80-470-99663-31-280-74335-297866107433530-470-79729-01-118-83598-0(CKB)2670000000336993(EBL)284249(OCoLC)213471212(SSID)ssj0001143534(PQKBManifestationID)12500036(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001143534(PQKBWorkID)11111801(PQKB)11738619(MiAaPQ)EBC284249(MiAaPQ)EBC4434087(MiAaPQ)EBC5247821(Au-PeEL)EBL4434087(CaPaEBR)ebr11387630(OCoLC)958543527(Au-PeEL)EBL5247821(CaONFJC)MIL74335(OCoLC)1027199479(PPN)226797058(EXLCZ)99267000000033699320051128d2006 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA companion to eighteenth-century poetry /edited by Christine Gerrard1st ed.Malden, MA :Blackwell Publishing,2006.1 online resource (623 p.)Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;44Description based upon print version of record.1-4051-1316-2 1-118-70229-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Christine Gerrard (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University) Part I: Contexts and Perspectives: 1. Poetry, Politics and the Rise of Party: Christine Gerrard (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University) 2. Poetry, Politics, and Empire: Suvir Kaul (University of Pennsylvania) 3. Poetry and Science: Clark Lawlor (University of Northumbria at Newcastle) 4. Poetry and Religion: Emma Mason (University of Warwick) 5. Poetic Enthusiasm: John D. Morillo (North Carolina State University) 6. Poetry and the Visual Arts: Robert Jones (University of Leeds) 7. Poetry, Popular Culture, and the Literary Marketplace: George Justice (University of Missouri-Columbia) 8. Women Poets and their Writing in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Charlotte Grant (formerly Senior Research Fellow at the AHRC Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior) 9. Poetry, Sentiment, and Sensibility: Jennifer Keith (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) Part II: Readings: 10. John Gay, The Shepherd's Week: Mina Gorji (Magdalen College, Oxford University) 11. Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock and "Eloisa to Abelard": Valerie Rumbold (University of Birmingham) 12. Jonathan Swift, The "Stella" Poems: Ros Ballaster (Mansfield College, Oxford) 13. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Six Town Eclogues and Other Poems: Isobel Grundy (University of Alberta, Canada) 14. James Thomson, The Seasons: Christine Gerrard (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University) 15. Stephen Duck, The Thresher's Labour, and Mary Collier, The Woman's Labour: John Goodridge (Nottingham Trent University) 16. Mary Leapor, "Crumble-Hall": David Fairer (University of Leeds) 17. Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of Imagination: Adam Rounce (Keele University) 18. Samuel Johnson, London and The Vanity of Human Wishes: David F. Venturo (College of New Jersey) 19. William Collins, "Ode on the Poetical Character": John Sitter (University of Notre Dame) 20. Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard: Suvir Kaul (University of Pennsylvania) 21. Christopher Smart, Jubilate Agno: Chris Mounsey (University of Winchester) 22. Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, and George Crabbe, The Village: Caryn Chaden (DePaul University) 23. William Cowper, The Task: Freya Johnston (University of Warwick) 24. Robert Burns, "Tam o' Shanter": Murray Pittock (Manchester University) Part III: Forms and Genres: 25. Rhyming Couplets and Blank Verse: Richard Bradford (University of Ulster, Coleraine) 26. Epic and Mock-Heroic: Richard Terry (University of Sunderland) 27. Verse Satire: Brean Hammond (University of Nottingham) 28. The Ode: Margaret M. Koehler (Otterbein College) 29. The Georgic: Juan Christian Pellicer (University of Oslo) 30. The Verse Epistle: Bill Overton (Loughborough University) Part IV: Themes and Debates: 31. The Constructions of Femininity: Kathryn R. King (University of Montevallo, Alabama) 32. Whig and Tory Poetics: Abigail Williams (St Peter's College, Oxford University) 33. The Classical Inheritance: David Hopkins.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 eighteenth-century poetry over the past two decades. Opens with a section on contexts, discussing poetry's relationships with patriotism, politics, science, and the visual arts, for example. Discusses poetry by male and female poets from all walks of life. <brBlackwell companions to literature and culture ;44.English poetry18th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish poetryHistory and criticism.821/.509HK 1150rvkGerrard ChristineMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996226146903316A companion to eighteenth-century poetry1990225UNISA