Author: John SitterPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521658850
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This book analyzes major premises and practices of eighteenth-century English poets.
The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry
Author: John SitterPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521658850
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This book analyzes major premises and practices of eighteenth-century English poets.
The Cambridge Companion to Alexander Pope
Author: Pat RogersPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827324
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Alexander Pope was the greatest poet of his age and the dominant influence on eighteenth-century British poetry. His large oeuvre, written over a thirty-year period, encompasses satires, odes and political verse and reflects the sexual, moral and cultural issues of the world around him, often in brilliant lines and phrases which have become part of our language today. This is the first overview to analyse the full range of Pope's work and to set it in its historical and cultural context. Specially commissioned essays by leading scholars explore all of Pope's major works, including the sexual politics of The Rape of the Lock, the philosophical enquiries of An Essay on Man and the Moral Essays, and the mock-heroic of The Dunciad in its various forms. This volume will be indispensable not only for students and scholars of Pope's work, but also for all those interested in the Augustan age.
The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Poetry
Author: Kerry C. LarsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052176369X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
The first critical collection of its kind devoted solely to this subject, this Companion covers both well-known and lesser-known poets.
The Cambridge Companion to English Poets
Author: Claude Julien RawsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521874343
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
This volume provides essays by twenty-nine leading scholars and critics on the best English poets from Chaucer to Larkin.
A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry
Author: Christine GerrardPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118702298
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
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).
The Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature
Author: M. O. GrenbyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139828045
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Some of the most innovative and spell-binding literature has been written for young people, but only recently has academic study embraced its range and complexity. This Companion offers a state-of-the-subject survey of English-language children's literature from the seventeenth century to the present. With discussions ranging from eighteenth-century moral tales to modern fantasies by J. K. Rowling and Philip Pullman, the Companion illuminates acknowledged classics and many more neglected works. Its unique structure means that equal consideration can be given to both texts and contexts. Some chapters analyse key themes and major genres, including humour, poetry, school stories, and picture books. Others explore the sociological dimensions of children's literature and the impact of publishing practices. Written by leading scholars from around the world, this Companion will be essential reading for all students and scholars of children's literature, offering original readings and new research that reflects the latest developments in the field.
The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse
Author: Roger LonsdalePublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191501425
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
No previous anthology has succeeded in illustrating so thoroughly the kinds of verse actually written in the eighteenth century. The familiar tradition is fully represented by selections from such poets as Pope, Swift, Tomson, Gray, Smart, Goldsmith, Cowper, Burns, and Blake. In addition, the anthology includes verse by many forgotten writers, both men and women, from all levels of society. Although they have never figured in conventional literary history, they wrote humorous, idiosyncratic, and graphic verse about their personal experience and the world around them, in a way that should challenge received ideas about the period's restraints and inhibitions.
The Cambridge Companion to American Poets
Author: Mark RichardsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107123828
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
This Companion brings together essays on some fifty-four American poets, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance, "confessional" poetry, the Black Mountain School, the New York School, the Beats, and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry.
The Cambridge Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Poetry
Author: John SitterPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139502468
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
For readers daunted by the formal structures and rhetorical sophistication of eighteenth-century English poetry, this introduction by John Sitter brings the techniques and the major poets of the period 1700–1785 triumphantly to life. Sitter begins by offering a guide to poetic forms ranging from heroic couplets to blank verse, then demonstrates how skilfully male and female poets of the period used them as vehicles for imaginative experience, feelings and ideas. He then provides detailed analyses of individual works by poets from Finch, Swift and Pope, to Gray, Cowper and Barbauld. An approachable introduction to English poetry and major poets of the eighteenth century, this book provides a grounding in poetic analysis useful to students and general readers of literature.
The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740-1830
Author: Thomas KeymerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521007573
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This volume offers an introduction to British literature that challenges the traditional divide between eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Contributors explore the development of literary genres and modes through a period of rapid change. They show how literature was shaped by historical factors including the development of the book trade, the rise of literary criticism and the expansion of commercial society and empire. The wide scope of the collection, juxtaposing canonical authors with those now gaining new attention from scholars, makes it essential reading for students of eighteenth-century literature and Romanticism.