Poetry from 1660 to 1780: Civil War, Restoration, Revolution (Blackwell Essential Literature) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0631229817 ISBN 13: 9780631229810

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2002

Synopsis

This concise collection of poetry from 1660-1789 offers readers authoritative texts of the central works of the age.

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• Provides readers with authoritative texts of key poems from 1660-1789.
  
• Focuses on those works most widely taught at schools and universities.
  
• Offers students an accessible digest of the poetry of the period.
  
• Demonstrates the range of poetry written between the restoration of the monarchy and the beginnings of the Romantic movement.

About this title

About the Author

Robert DeMaria Jr. is Henry Noble MacCracken Professor of English at Vassar College.

Duncan Wu is a Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford, and University Lecturer in English Literature.

From the Back Cover

Poetry from 1660-1789 offers readers authoritative texts of the central works of the age from a wide range of poets, including Milton, Dryden, Wilmot, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Gray, Collins and Goldsmith.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0631229817
• ISBN 13: 9780631229810
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: DeMaria Jr. Robert, Wu Duncan