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Informationen zum Autor John Regan is a research fellow in English literature at the University of Cambridge, UK. His research interests centre on the cultural dialogue between poetics and historical writing in the long eighteenth century. Klappentext 'Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760-1790' explores the role of poetry in eighteenth-century thinking on human progress. Its central contention is that the textural, verbal characteristics of poetry were a crucial form of response to ideas of human development. That is, the aesthetics of verse - how poetry appeals to the senses as well as to the intellect - constitute inadequately appreciated forms of response to the ideas of progress which were developing and gaining popular traction in Britain in the period 1760-1790. Zusammenfassung 'Poetry and the Idea of Progress! 1760-1790' explores the role of poetry in eighteenth-century thinking on human progress. Its central contention is that the textural! verbal characteristics of poetry were a crucial form of response to ideas of human development. That is! the aesthetics of verse - how poetry appeals to the senses as well as to the intellect - constitute inadequately appreciated forms of response to the ideas of progress which were developing and gaining popular traction in Britain in the period 1760-1790. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One: The Cultural Logic of Progress; Part Two: ElocutionaryPoetics in the Context of 'Taste'; 1. Progress by Prescription; 2. Thomas Sheridan and the Divine Harmony of Progress; Part One: Harmony Articulated; Part Two: From Disinterestedness to the Divine; 3. 'There Is a Natural Propensity in the Human Mind to Apply Number and Measure to Every Thing We Hear': Monboddo, Steele and Prosody as Rhythm; Part One: Monboddo's Theory of Linguistic Progress; Part Two: Steele's Emphasis; Part Three: Rhythm as Prosody; 4. '[C]ut into, distorted, twisted': Thomas Percy, Editing and the Idea of Progress; Part One: The Stadial Antiquarian; Part Two: Prosody as Pressure Point; 5. 'Manners' and 'Marked Prosody': Hugh Blair and Henry Home, Lord Kames; Afterword: Rude Manners, 'Stately' Measures: Byron and the Idea of Progress in the New Century; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index. ...
