English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789

Informationen zum Autor David Fairer Zusammenfassung In recent years the canon of eighteenth-century poetry has greatly expanded to include women poets, labouring-class and provincial poets, and many previously unheard voices.This book questions some of the structures, categories, and labels that have given the age its reassuring shape in literary history. In doing so it offers a fresh and detailed look at a wide range of material. Inhaltsverzeichnis Editors' Preface Acknowledgements Author's Preface 1. Between Manuscript and Print 2. Debating Politeness 3. Wit, Imagination, and Mock-Heroic 4. The Verse Letter 5. Pastoral and Georgic 6. The Romantic Mode, 1700-1730 7. Sublimity, Nature and God 8. Recovering the Past 9. Genuine Voices 10. Economics of Landscape 11. Sensibility: Selves, Friends, Communities Chronology General Bibliographies Individual Poets

Product details

• Authors: David Fairer, Fairer David
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.01.2017
• EAN: 9781138180321
• ISBN: 978-1-138-18032-1
• No. of pages: 316
• Series: Longman Literature In English Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; POETRY / General, Poetry, Ireland, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism