Eighteenth-Century Poetry
An Annotated Anthology
(Sprache: Englisch)
Currently the definitive text in the field and now available in an expanded third edition, Eighteenth-Century Poetry presents the rich diversity of English poetry from 1700-1800 in authoritative texts and with full scholarly annotation.
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Currently the definitive text in the field and now available in an expanded third edition, Eighteenth-Century Poetry presents the rich diversity of English poetry from 1700-1800 in authoritative texts and with full scholarly annotation.* Balanced to reflect current interests and "favorites" (including prominent poets like Finch, Swift, Pope, Montagu, Johnson, Gray, Burns, and Cowper) as well as less familiar material, offering a variety of voices and new directions for research and learning
* Includes 46 new poems with more texts by women poets and the inclusion of four additional poets (Mary Barber, Mehetabel Wright, Anna Seward, and Mary Robinson); poems reflecting new ecological approaches to 18th-century literature; and poems on the art of writing
* Accessible and user-friendly, with generous head notes, full foot-of-page annotations, an expanded thematic index, and a visually appealing text design
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Eighteenth-Century Poetry “
Selected Contents by Theme xiAlphabetical List of Authors xxi
Chronology of Events and Poetic Landmarks xxii
Introduction xxv
Preface to Third Edition xxvii
Preface to Second Edition xxix
Editorial Procedures xxx
Text xxxi
Acknowledgements xxxii
1 Women's Role in Society
2 Beauty and Vanity
3 Love and Courtship
4 Marriage
5 Mothers and Children
6 Humans and Animals
7 The Natural World
8 Urban Life
9 Houses and Gardens
10 Rural Life and Labour
11 Social Change
12 Nocturnal Meditation
13 The Role of the Poet
14 Literary Patronage and the Economics of Authorship
15 Autobiography
16 Recovering the Past
17 Contemplating Death
18 Madness
19 Visions
20 The Imagination
21 Liberty
22 God in Nature
23 Wealth and Poverty
24 Art and Nature
25 Portraits
26 Music
27 Letters
28 Politics, Power, and the State
29 Lyric
Autoren-Porträt
David Fairer is Professor of Eighteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Leeds, UK. His most recent book, Organising Poetry: The Coleridge Circle 1790-1798 (2009) traces the development of English poetry during the 1790s, building on the concerns of his previous comprehensive study, English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789 (2003). He is also the author of The Poetry of Alexander Pope (1989) and Pope's Imagination (1984), and editor of The Correspondence of Thomas Warton (1995) and Pope: New Contexts (1990).Christine Gerrard is the Barbara Scott Fellow and Tutor in English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, UK. She has recently edited volume 1 of The Complete Correspondence of Samuel Richardson: Correspondence with Aaron Hill and the Hill Family (2013) which follows on from her literary biography Aaron Hill: The Muses' Projector, 1685-1750 (2003). She is the editor of A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry (Wiley Blackwell, 2006) and the author of The Patriot Opposition to Walpole: Politics, Poetry, and National Myth, 1725-1742 (1994).
Bibliographische Angaben
- 2014, 3. Aufl., 688 Seiten, Maße: 17 x 24,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben: David Fairer, Christine Gerrard
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 111882475X
- ISBN-13: 9781118824757
- Erscheinungsdatum: 21.11.2014
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"Fairer and Gerrard's third edition of Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology is simplythe one and only anthology to use when teaching18 th -Century British Poetry. The selections arejudicious but wide-ranging, offering readers the traditionalcanonical figures as well as newly-recuperated poets, both male andfemale. The annotations are superbly informative and authoritative.Bravissimo!" - John Richetti, University ofPennsylvania
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