LEADER 05760nam 2200745 450 001 996226146903316 005 20220808181339.0 010 $a9781405171922 (electronic book) 010 $a1-4051-6871-4 010 $a1-78268-455-7 010 $a1-4051-7192-8 010 $a0-470-99663-3 010 $a1-280-74335-2 010 $a9786610743353 010 $a0-470-79729-0 010 $a1-118-83598-0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000336993 035 $a(EBL)284249 035 $a(OCoLC)213471212 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001143534 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12500036 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001143534 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11111801 035 $a(PQKB)11738619 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC284249 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4434087 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5247821 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4434087 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11387630 035 $a(OCoLC)958543527 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5247821 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL74335 035 $a(OCoLC)1027199479 035 $a(PPN)226797058 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000336993 100 $a20051128d2006 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 02$aA companion to eighteenth-century poetry /$fedited by Christine Gerrard 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aMalden, MA :$cBlackwell Publishing,$d2006. 215 $a1 online resource (623 p.) 225 1 $aBlackwell companions to literature and culture ;$v44 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4051-1316-2 311 $a1-118-70229-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aThis 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.