Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetry write by Patricia Meyer Spacks. This book was released on 2009-02-17. Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetry recaptures for modern readers the urgency, distinctiveness and rewarding nature of this challenging and powerful body of poetry. An essential guide to reading eighteenth-century poetry, written by world-renowned critic, Patricia Meyer Spacks Exposes the multiplicity of forms, tones, and topics engaged by poets during this period Provides in-depth analysis of poems by established figures such as Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, as well as work by less familiar figures, including Anne Finch and Mary Leapor A broadly chronological structure incorporates close reading alongside insightful contextual and historical detail Captures the power and uniqueness of eighteenth-century poetry, creating an ideal guide for those returning to this period, or delving into it for the first time
Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry
Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry write by Paula R. Backscheider. This book was released on 2005-12-31. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Our sense of eighteenth-century poetic territory is immeasurably expanded by [this] excellent historical and cultural” study of UK women poets of the era (Cynthia Wall, Studies in English Literature). This major work offers a broad view of the writing and careers of eighteenth-century women poets, casting new light on the ways in which poetry was read and enjoyed, on changing poetic tastes in British culture, and on the development of many major poetic genres and traditions. Rather than presenting a chronological survey, Paula R. Backscheider explores the forms in which women wrote and the uses to which they put those forms. Considering more than forty women in relation to canonical male writers of the same era, she concludes that women wrote in all of the genres that men did but often adapted, revised, and even created new poetic kinds from traditional forms. Backscheider demonstrates that knowledge of these women’s poetry is necessary for an accurate and nuanced literary history. Within chapters on important verse forms, she sheds light on such topics as women’s use of religious poetry to express ideas about patriarchy and rape; the important role of friendship poetry; same-sex desire in elegy by women as well as by men; and the status of Charlotte Smith as a key figure of the long eighteenth century, not only as a Romantic-era poet. Co-Winner, James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association
English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789
English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789 write by David Fairer. This book was released on 2014-10-13. English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent years the canon of eighteenth-century poetry has greatly expanded to include women poets, labouring-class and provincial poets, and many previously unheard voices. Fairer’s book takes up the challenge this ought to pose to our traditional understanding of the subject. This book seeks to question some of the structures, categories, and labels that have given the age its reassuring shape in literary history. In doing so Fairer offers a fresh and detailed look at a wide range of material.
The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry
The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry write by John Sitter. This book was released on 2001-03-26. The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book analyzes major premises and practices of eighteenth-century English poets.
The Cambridge Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Poetry
The Cambridge Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Poetry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Poetry write by John Sitter. This book was released on 2011-10-06. The Cambridge Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
