Augustan Studies

It is still true that most readers of eighteenth-century poetry approach it by way of nineteenth-century poetry; they know what Wordsworth said about Pope before they read Pope. This means that when they read Pope and other eighteenth-century poets, they apply the wrong criteria. An eighteenth-century poet did not have to create the taste by which he was enjoyed to the same extent as a nineteenth-century poet was conscious of having to. The kinds were ready waiting for him, and, if the rules of poetic diction for the kinds of which he elected to write were properly complied with, the products were recognisable: epic, tragedy in verse, Pindaric, elegy, heroic and familiar epistle, pastoral, georgic, occasional verse, translation and imitation. This book, a collection of essays by Dr Tillotson, examines these types of eighteenth-century poetry with particular focus on poetic diction, as well as discussing works such as Pope''s letters and Johnson''s dictionary.>

List of contents

Abbreviations
I Augustan Poetic Diction: I
II Augustan Poetic Diction: II
III More about Poetic Diction
IV The Manner of Proceeding in Certain Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Poems
V The 'Minor Poems' in the 'Twickenham' Pope
VI Pope's Letters in Professor Sherburn's Edition
VII Pope's 'Epistle to Harley': an Introduction and Analysis
VIII 'Grongar Hill': an Introduction and Texts
IX Gray's 'Ode on the Spring'
X Gray's 'Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes'
XI Johnson's Dictionary
XII Rasselas
XIII Time in Rasselas
Index

Product details

• Authors: Geoffrey Tillotson, Tillotson Geoffrey
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.11.2013
• EAN: 9781472507150
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-0715-0
• No. of pages: 266
• Series: Bloomsbury Academic Collection; Bloomsbury Academic Collection; Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English Literary Criticism
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: poetry and poets