John Sitter (ed.)

The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry

Herausgeber: Sitter, John E.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyzes major premises and practices of eighteenth-century English poets.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 674g
• ISBN-13: 9780521650908
• ISBN-10: 0521650909
• Artikelnr.: 21463906

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Chronology
1. Introduction: the future of eighteenth-century poetry John Sitter
2. Couplets and conversation J. Paul Hunter
3. Political passions Christine Gerrard
4. Publishing and reading poetry Barbara M. Benedict
5. The city in eighteenth-century poetry Brean Hammond
6. 'Nature' poetry Tim Fulford
7. Questions in poetics: why and how poetry matters John Sitter
8. Eighteenth-century women poets and readers Claudia Thomas Kairoff
9. Creating a national poetry: the tradition of Spenser and Milton David Fairer
10. The return to the ode Ralph Cohen
11. A poetry of absence David B. Morris
12. The poetry of sensibility Patricia Meyer Spacks
13. 'Pre-Romanticism' and the ends of eighteenth-century poetry Jennifer Keith
Index.