Eighteenth-century poetry : an annotated anthology / / edited by David Fairer and Christine Gerrard

• Pubblicazione: Chichester, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015; ©2015
• Edizione: Third edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (688 p.)
• Disciplina: 821/.508
• Soggetto topico: English poetry - 18th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): FairerDavid; GerrardChristine
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Blackwell Annotated Anthologies; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Selected Contents by Theme; Alphabetical List of Authors; Chronology of Events and Poetic Landmarks; Introduction; Preface to Third Edition; Preface to Second Edition; Editorial Procedures; The Text; Acknowledgements; John Pomfret (1667-1702); The Choice; John Philips (1676-1709); The Splendid Shilling; Sarah Fyge Egerton (1670-1723); The Liberty; On my leaving London, June the 29; To One who said I must not Love; The Emulation; Isaac Watts (1674-1748); The Adventurous Muse; Ambrose Philips (1674-1749) ; A Winter-Piece Anne Finch (1661-1720); The Spleen; Upon the Hurricane; A Nocturnal Rêverie; The Tree; To the Nightingale; A Sigh; To a Friend, in Praise of the Invention of Writing Letters; Glass; The Agreeable; To Mr Pope, in answer to a Copy of Verses; John Gay (1685-1732); The Shepherd's Week; Friday; or, The Dirge; Bumkinet. Grubbinol.; Trivia: Or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London; Book II; The Man and the Flea; Thomas Parnell (1679-1718); An Elegy, To an Old Beauty; A Night-Piece on Death; Oft have I read; Matthew Prior (1664-1721); For His own Epitaph; An Epitaph ; The Lady's Looking-Glass Non Pareil; On a Pretty Madwoman; True Statesmen; Jonathan Swift (1667-1745); A Description of the Morning; A Description of a City Shower; Stella's Birthday, 1719; Stella's Birthday, 1721; Stella's Birthday, 1727; A Satirical Elegy On the Death of a late Famous General; The Lady's Dressing Room; A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed; Strephon and Chloe; Verses on the Death of Dr Swift, D.S.P.D.; Occasioned by Reading a Maxim in Rochefoucault; Alexander Pope (1688-1744); Windsor-Forest; The Rape of the Lock; Canto I; Canto II; Canto III; Canto IV; Canto V ; Eloisa to Abelard To Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington. Of the Use of Riches; An Epistle to a Lady Of the Characters of Women; The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated; An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot; An Essay on Man; Epistle I; The Dunciad, 1743; Book I; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762); Saturday. The Small-Pox. Flavia.; Epistle from Arthur Gray the Footman, after his Condemnation for attempting a Rape; Epistle from Mrs Y[onge] to her Husband; The Lover: A Ballad; An Epistle to Lord Bathurst; Verses Address'd to the Imitator of Horace ; The Dean's Provocation for Writing the Lady's Dressing-Room Verses on Self-Murder, address'd to -; A Hymn to the Moon; Aaron Hill (1685-1750); Bellaria, at her spinnet; Whitehall Stairs; The Singing-Bird; Alone, in an Inn, at Southampton. April the 25th, 1737; Richard Savage (c.1697-1743); The Bastard; Unconstant; Martha Fowke (1689-1736); The Innocent Inconstant; The Invitation from a Country Cottage; On Lady Chudleigh; Clio's Picture; On being charged with Writing incorrectly; A Letter to my Love.-All alone, past 12, in the Dumps; James Thomson (1700-1748); The Seasons; Winter. A Poem (1726) ; Spring
• Sommario/riassunto: Currently the definitive text in the field and now available in an expanded third edition, Eighteenth-Century Poetry presents the rich diversity of English poetry from 1700-1800 in authoritative texts and with full scholarly annotation. Balanced to reflect current interests and "favorites" (including prominent poets like Finch, Swift, Pope, Montagu, Johnson, Gray, Burns, and Cowper) as well as less familiar material, offering a variety of voices and new directions for research and learning Includes 46 new poems with more texts by women poets and the inclusion of four additional poets (Mary B
• Titolo autorizzato: Eighteenth-century poetry
• ISBN: 1-118-82478-4; 1-118-82470-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460237703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Blackwell annotated anthologies.