Poems of Nation, Anthems of Empire - English Verse in the Long Eighteenth Century

This text argues that the aggressive nationalism of James Thomson's ode "Rule Britannia!" (1740), is the condition to which much English poetry of the late 17th and 18th centuries aspires. Poets as varied as Marvell, Waller, Dryden and Defoe, all wrote poems deeply engaged with the British nation.

About the author

Suvir Kaul, Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is also the author of Thomas Gray and Literary Authority: A Study in Ideology and Poetics.

Product details

• Authors: Suvir Kaul
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2001
• EAN: 9780813919683
• ISBN: 978-0-8139-1968-3
• No. of pages: 350
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 569 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies