The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry

(Part of the Cambridge Introductions to Literature Series and Cambridge Companions to Literature Series)

by John E. Sitter

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This volume analyzes major premises, preoccupations, and practices of a wide range of English poets writing from 1700 to the 1790s, including Pope and Thomson, Anna Seward and Erasmus Darwin. Specially commissioned essays by leading scholars avoid familiar categories and single-author approaches to consider such large poetic themes as nature, the city, political passions, the relation of death to desire and dreams, the rise of a national tradition,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521658853

ISBN13:9780521658850

Release Date:August 2008

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:320 Pages

Weight:1.45 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Poetry

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