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Informationen zum Autor Christine Gerrard is Fellow and Tutor in English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University. She is the author of The Patriot Opposition to Walpole: Politics, Poetry, and National Myth, 1725-1742 (1994) and Aaron Hill: The Muses' Projector, 1685-1750 (2003). She is the co-editor, with David Fairer, of Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (Blackwell, second edition, 2003). Klappentext This wide-ranging Companion reflects the dramatic transformation that has taken place in the study of eighteenth-century poetry over the past two decades. New essays by leading scholars in the field address an expanded poetic canon that now incorporates verse by many women poets and other formerly marginalized poetic voices. The volume engages with topical critical debates such as the production and consumption of literary texts, the constructions of femininity, sentiment and sensibility, enthusiasm, politics and aesthetics, and the growth of imperialism. The Companion opens with a section on contexts, considering eighteenth-century poetry's relationships with such topics as party politics, religion, science, the visual arts, and the literary marketplace. A series of close readings of specific poems follows, ranging from familiar texts such as Pope's The Rape of the Lock to slightly less well-known works such as Swift's "Stella" poems and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Town Eclogues . Essays on forms and genres, and a series of more provocative contributions on significant themes and debates, complete the volume. The Companion gives readers a thorough grounding in both the background and the substance of eighteenth-century poetry, and is designed to be used alongside David Fairer and Christine Gerrard's Eighteenth-century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (Blackwell, second edition, 2004). Zusammenfassung Brings together 48 fresh and original contributions from practicing poets and leading scholars! who together offer critical and contextual coverage of the full range of English-language poetry in the last century. Brings together original contributions by leading international scholars and practising poets. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 Christine Gerrard PART I Contexts and Perspectives 5 1 Poetry, Politics, and the Rise of Party 7 Christine Gerrard 2 Poetry, Politics, and Empire 23 Suvir Kaul 3 Poetry and Science 38 Clark Lawlor 4 Poetry and Religion 53 Emma Mason 5 Poetic Enthusiasm 69 John D. Morillo 6 Poetry and the Visual Arts 83 Robert Jones 7 Poetry, Popular Culture, and the Literary Marketplace 97 George Justice 8 Women Poets and Their Writing in Eighteenth-Century Britain 111 Charlotte Grant 9 Poetry, Sentiment, and Sensibility 127 Jennifer Keith PART II Readings 143 10 John Gay, The Shepherd's Week 145 Mina Gorji 11 Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock and "Eloisa to Abelard" 157 Valerie Rumbold 12 Jonathan Swift, the "Stella" Poems 170 Ros Ballaster 13 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Six Town Eclogues and Other Poems 184 Isobel Grundy 14 James Thomson, The Seasons 197 Christine Gerrard 15 Stephen Duck, The Thresher's Labour, and Mary Collier, The Woman's Labour 209 John Goodridge 16 Mary Leapor, "Crumble-Hall" 223 David Fairer 17 Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of Imagination 237 Adam Rounce 18 Samuel Johnson, London and The Vanity of Human Wishes 252 David F. Venturo 19 William Col...
