Camb Companion Eightnth-Cent Poetry (Cambridge Companions to Literature) - Softcover

Sitter, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521658853 ISBN 13: 9780521658850

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry analyzes major premises, preoccupations, and practices of English poets writing from 1700 to the 1790s. These specially-commissioned essays avoid familiar categories and single-author approaches to look at the century afresh. Chapters consider such large poetic themes as nature, the city, political passions, the relation of death to desire and dreams, appeals to an imagined future, and the meanings of 'sensibility'. Other chapters explore historical developments such as the connection between poetic couplets and conversation, the conditions of publication, changing theories of poetry and imagination, growing numbers of women poets and readers, the rise of a self-consciously national tradition, and the place of lyric poetry in thought and practice. The essays are well supported by supplementary material including a chronology of the period and detailed guides to further reading. Altogether the volume provides an invaluable resource for scholars and students.

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Review:

"The essays in this volume provides useful and accessible background material for students of 18th-century poetry...Recommanded for all academic collections, undergraduate and graduate." CHOICE Jan 2002

Book Description:

This volume analyzes major premises, preoccupations, and practices of English poets writing from 1700 to the 1790s. Specially-commissioned essays, supported by guides to further reading, avoid familiar categories and single-author approaches to look at the century afresh, exploring such large poetic themes as nature, the city, politics, gender and dreams.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521658853
• ISBN 13: 9780521658850
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320