The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century VerseRoger H. Lonsdale, Roger Lonsdale Oxford University Press, 1984 - 870 頁 Anthologies of eighteenth-century verse have tended to confirm traditional notions of the period as one of untroubled elegance, urbanity, and decorum. Offering over 550 poems and extracts by more than 250 poets, The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse presents a truer picture of this age as a much less stable and decorous time. This extraordinarily comprehensive volume includes not only a generous selection of verse by such renowned poets as Swift, Pope, Johnson, Gray, Smart, Goldsmith, Cowper, Blake, and Burns, but also a large number of poems by lesser-known and previously ignored poets. Intermixing the familiar styles and preoccupations of "polite" taste with much less familiar verse from all social levels, it reveals the willingness of the century's poets to respond graphically, humorously, or unconventionally to all aspects of rural and urban life. Topics range from golf and hypnotism to amorous adventure and marital discord, from growing sensitivity to natural beauty to fear of the effects of the Industrial Revolution, and from the anguish of poverty and unemployment to animated political exchanges in the wake of the French Revolution. Taken together, these poems reveal that both unpredictability and familiarity played as significant a role as Augustan reason played in the world of eighteenth-century poetry. The anthology also includes a helpful introduction, notes, and a glossary. |
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... appear . Ere yet the clouds let fall the treasured snow , Or winds begun through hazy skies to blow , At evening a keen eastern breeze arose , And the descending rain unsullied froze . Soon as the silent shades of night withdrew , The ...
... appear . Ere yet the clouds let fall the treasured snow , Or winds begun through hazy skies to blow , At evening a keen eastern breeze arose , And the descending rain unsullied froze . Soon as the silent shades of night withdrew , The ...
第 89 頁
... appear already past , And the first clouds and mountains seem the last : But , those attained , we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthened way , Th ' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes , Hills peep o'er hills ...
... appear already past , And the first clouds and mountains seem the last : But , those attained , we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthened way , Th ' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes , Hills peep o'er hills ...
第 122 頁
... appear , And graceful porches lead along the square : Here oft my course I bend , when lo ! from far , I spy the furies of the football war : The ' prentice quits his shop to join the crew , Increasing crowds the flying game pursue ...
... appear , And graceful porches lead along the square : Here oft my course I bend , when lo ! from far , I spy the furies of the football war : The ' prentice quits his shop to join the crew , Increasing crowds the flying game pursue ...
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