The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

✍ Scribed by Professor John Sitter

• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 311
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume analyzes major premises, preoccupations, and practices of a wide range of English poets writing from 1700 to the 1790s, including Pope and Thomson, Anna Seward and Erasmus Darwin. Specially commissioned essays by leading scholars avoid familiar categories and single-author approaches to consider such large poetic themes as nature, the city, political passions, the relation of death to desire and dreams, the rise of a national tradition, appeals to an imagined future, and the meanings of "sensibility." The essays are supported by a chronology and guides to further reading.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry......Page 2
Contents......Page 10
List of illustrations......Page 12
Notes on contributors......Page 13
Chronology......Page 15
1 Introduction: the future of eighteenth-century poetry......Page 22
2 Couplets and conversation......Page 32
3 Political passions......Page 58
4 Publishing and reading poetry......Page 84
5 The city in eighteenth-century poetry......Page 104
6 “Nature” poetry......Page 130
7 Questions in poetics: why and how poetry matters......Page 154
8 Eighteenth-century women poets and readers......Page 178
9 Creating a national poetry: the tradition of Spenser and Milton......Page 198
10 The return to the ode......Page 224
11 A poetry of absence......Page 246
12 The poetry of sensibility......Page 270
13 “Pre-Romanticism” and the ends of eighteenth-century poetry......Page 292