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Adam Budd's critical edition presents John Armstrong's poem The Art of Preserving Health (1744) and other key sources of the eighteenth-century cult of sensibility. It also includes a comprehensive introduction and explanatory notes, clarifying Armstrong's classical, medical, and social references. Readers will come away convinced of the poem's uni
List of contents
Contents: Preface; General introduction: sensibility in practice: Dr John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health; Part I The Critical Text: The Art of Preserving Health. Part II Contextual Documents: Poetry: The plague of Athens from the Latin of Lucretius, 1682, Thomas Creech; A nocturnal reverie, 1713, [Anne Finch];A hymn on solitude, 1748, James Thomson; 'Preface', Winter. A poem, 1726, James Thomson; Night the first, 1742, Edward Young; The pleasures of melancholy. A poem,1747, [Thomas Warton]. Theory of the Georgic: An essay on the Georgics, 1697, Joseph Addison; Virgil, The Georgicks, trans. 1741, John Martin; Of didactic or perceptive poetry, 1711, Joseph Trapp. Medical Documents: The plague at Marseilles consider'd, 1720, Richard Bradley; An essay of health and long life, 1724, George Cheyne; A letter to George Cheyne,1724, [Anonymous]; The ill state of physicke in Great Britain, 1727, [John Tristram]; 'Preface', A Full View of All the Diseases Incident to Children, 1742, John Armstrong; Tables; Bibliography; Index.
About the author
Adam Budd lectures in Comparative Literature and directs the graduate courses in historical methods in the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh.
Summary
Adam Budd's critical edition presents John Armstrong's poem The Art of Preserving Health (1744) and other key sources of the eighteenth-century cult of sensibility. It also includes a comprehensive introduction and explanatory notes, clarifying Armstrong's classical, medical, and social references. Readers will come away convinced of the poem's uni
