Collected Verse of John, Lord Hervey (16961743)

The first ever edition of the collected verse of John, Lord Hervey, an eighteenth-century aristocrat, courtier, politician and poet.

List of contents

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Abbreviations; Introduction; Epistles; Satires; Elegies, epitaphs and an epilogue; Epigrams and a riddle; Occasional verse - social, humorous and complimentary; Shorter translations, paraphrases and imitations; Telemachus and Agrippina; Embedded original verse; Verse in Latin and in French; Descriptions of manuscript sources; List of print sources; Textual introduction; Lists of emendations and historical collations; Appendices; Index of titles; Index of first lines; Index (names, places and historical events).

About the author

Bill Overton (1946–2012) was Professor of Literature at Loughborough University. Publicly defining himself as a 'generalist', he published on nineteenth-century European novels, on Shakespeare and (increasingly after 1995) on eighteenth-century poetry. This edition of John, Lord Hervey's verse was his final work.Elaine Hobby is Professor of Seventeenth-Century Studies at Loughborough University. She has edited midwifery manuals, life-writings and religio-political pamphlets, and is currently working on an edition of the writings of Aphra Behn for Cambridge University Press.James McLaverty is Emeritus Professor of Textual Criticism at Keele University. Much of his work has focused on Hervey's great antagonist, Alexander Pope, and he is the co-editor, with Paddy Bullard, of Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book (Cambridge, 2013). He currently serves as one of the General Editors of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift.

Summary

The first collected volume of the verse of the courtier and politician John, Lord Hervey (1696–1743) illuminates many aspects of early eighteenth-century culture, including its gay/bisexual circles. Full introductions, a chronology, textual accounts and annotations make it suitable for scholars, research students and undergraduates.

Product details

• Authors: John Hervey, Lord Hervey, John Lord Hervey
• Assisted by: Bill Overton (Editor), Bill (Professor of Literary Studies Overton (Editor), William Overton (Editor), Overton Bill (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.11.2016
• EAN: 9781107010178
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01017-8
• No. of pages: 822
• Assisted by: Elaine Hobby
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; POETRY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry by individual poets, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Anglo-Saxon / Old English, Anglo-Saxon