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English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789 1/e
Professor David Fairer
Published February 2003 by Longman
Copyright 2002, 320 pp., Paper
ISBN: 0582227771
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Summary

Written in a lively and accessible style, this text offers an exciting kaleidoscope of material on eighteenth-century poetry that will stimulate fresh responses from critics and student alike. KEY TOPICS: In recent years the canon of eighteenth-century poetry has greatly expanded to include women poets, laboring-class and provincial poets, and many previously unheard voices. Professor Fairer's book takes up the challenge this ought to pose to our traditional understanding of the subject and seeks to question some of the structures, categories, and labels that have given the age its reassuring shape in literary history. In doing so he offers a fresh and detailed look at a wide range of material. MARKET: For those interested in 18th Century British Poetry.
Features

  • The book challenges traditional categories and period divisions.
  • The book integrates the work of lesser-known poets with the work of the period's major authors.
  • Poems are discussed in their immediate context, with close readings of poems, exploring detailed linguistic and stylistic effects.
  • The book is written in a lively and accessible style.
Author Bio

David Fairer is Professor of Eighteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Leeds.
Table of Contents

Editors' Preface
Acknowledgements
Author's Preface
 
1. Between Manuscript and Print
 
2. Debating Politeness
 
3. Wit, Imagination, and Mock-Heroic
 
4. The Verse Letter
 
5. Pastoral and Georgic
 
6. The Romantic Mode, 1700-1730
 
7. Sublimity, Nature and God
 
8. Recovering the Past
 
9. Genuine Voices
 
10. Economics of Landscape
 
11. Sensibility: Selves, Friends, Communities
 
Chronology
General Bibliographies
Individual Poets
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