A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry

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Christine Gerrard
John Wiley & Sons, 2013年12月19日 - 624 頁
A COMPANION TO & EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY

A COMPANION TO & EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY
Edited by Christine Gerrard

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 (3rd edition, 2014).

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Poetry Politics and the Rise of Party
7
Poetry Politics and Empire
23
Poetry and Science
38
Poetry and Religion
53
Poetic Enthusiasm
69
Poetry and the Visual Arts
83
Poetry Popular Culture and the Literary Marketplace
97
Women Poets and Their Writing in EighteenthCentury Britain
111
Robert Burns Tam o Shanter Murray Pittock
329
Forms and Genres
339
Epic and MockHeroic
356
Verse Satire
369
The Ode
386
The Georgic
403
The Verse Epistle
417
The Constructions of Femininity
431

Poetry Sentiment and Sensibility
127
Readings
143
Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock
157
Jonathan Swift the Stella Poems
170
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Six Town Eclogues
184
James Thomson The Seasons
197
Mary Leapor CrumbleHall David Fairer
223
Mark Akenside The Pleasures of Imagination
237
Samuel Johnson London and The Vanity of Human Wishes
252
William Collins Ode on the Poetical Character John Sitter
265
Christopher Smart Jubilate Agno
290
Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village and George Crabbe
303
William Cowper The Task
316
Whig and Tory Poetics
444
The Classical Inheritance
458
Augustanism and PreRomanticism
473
Shakespeare Spenser and British Poetic Tradition
486
The Pleasures and Perils of the Imagination
500
The Sublime
515
Poetry and the City
534
Cartography and the Poetry of Place
549
Rural Poetry and the SelfTaught Tradition
563
Poetry Beyond the English Borders
577
Index
590
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Christine Gerrard is Fellow and Tutor in English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University. She is the author of Aaron Hill: The Muses’ Projector, 1685—1750 (2003) and The Patriot Opposition to Walpole: Politics, Poetry, and National Myth, 1725—1742 (1994), and editor of The Cambridge Edition of The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson: Correspondence with Aaron Hill and the Hill Family (2013). She is the co-editor, with David Fairer, of Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (3rd edition, 2014).

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