A COMPANION TO EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY by Christine Gerrard (Editor) ( 9780470996638 )

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A COMPANION TO EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY

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ISBN 10:

0470996633

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9780470996638

Publisher:

JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD

Pub. date:

22 November, 2007

Series:

Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

Pages:

624

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Brings together 48 fresh and original contributions from practicing poets and leading scholars, who together offer critical and contextual coverage of the full range of English-language poetry in the last century. Brings together original contributions by leading international scholars and practising poets.

Synopsis:

This broad-ranging Companion gives readers a thorough grounding in both the background and the substance of eighteenth-century poetry in all its rich variety. * An up-to-date and wide-ranging guide to eighteenth-century poetry. * Reflects the dramatic transformation which has taken place in the study of eighteenth-century poetry over the past two decades. * Opens with a section on contexts, discussing poetry's relationships with patriotism, politics, science, and the visual arts, for example. * Discusses poetry by male and female poets from all walks of life. * Includes numerous close readings of individual poems, ranging from Pope's The Rape of the Lock to Mary Collier's The Woman's Labour. * Includes more provocative contributions on subjects such as rural poetry and the self-taught tradition, British poetry 'beyond the borders', the constructions of femininity, women as writers and women as readers. * Designed to be used alongside David Fairer and Christine Gerrard's Eighteenth-century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (Blackwell Publishing, Second Edition, 2003).

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