Poetry and Jacobite Politics in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland - 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 Poetry and Jacobite Politics in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland write by Murray G. H. Pittock. This book was released on 2006-11-02. Poetry and Jacobite Politics in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Redefinition of the Augustan age as a 'four nations' history using popular literary sources.
Verse in English from Eighteenth-century Ireland
Verse in English from Eighteenth-century Ireland - 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 Verse in English from Eighteenth-century Ireland write by Andrew Carpenter. This book was released on 1998. Verse in English from Eighteenth-century Ireland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This pioneering anthology introduces many previously neglected eighteenth-century writers to a general readership, and will lead to a re-examination of the entire canon of Irish verse in English. Between 1700 and 1800, Dublin was second only to London as a center for the printing of poetry in English. Many fine poets were active during this period. However, because Irish eighteenth-century verse in English has to a great extent escaped the scholar and the anthologist, it is hardly known at all. The most innovative aspect of this new anthology is the inclusion of many poetic voices entirely unknown to modern readers. Although the anthology contains the work of well-known figures such as John Toland, Thomas Parnell, Jonathan Swift, Patrick Delany, Laetitia Pilkington and Oliver Goldsmith, there are many verses by lesser known writers and nearly eighty anonymous poems which come from the broadsheets, manuscripts and chapbooks of the time. What emerges is an entirely new perspective on life in eighteenth-century Ireland. We hear the voice of a hard working farmer's wife from county Derry, of a rambling weaver from county Antrim, and that of a woman dying from drink. We learn about whale-fishing in county Donegal, about farming in county Kerry and bull-baiting in Dublin. In fact, almost every aspect of life in eighteenth-century Ireland is described vividly, energetically, with humor and feeling in the verse of this anthology. Among the most moving poems are those by Irish-speaking poets who use amhran or song meter and internal assonance, both borrowed from Irish, in their English verse. Equally interesting is the work of the weaver poets of Ulster who wrote in vigorous and energetic Ulster-Scots. The anthology also includes political poems dating from the reign of James II to the Act of Union, as well as a selection of lesser-known nationalist and Orange songs. Each poem is fully annotated and the book also contains a glossary of terms in Hiberno-English and Ulster Scots.
Patriotism and Poetry in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Patriotism and Poetry in Eighteenth-Century Britain - 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 Patriotism and Poetry in Eighteenth-Century Britain write by Dustin Griffin. This book was released on 2005-11-17. Patriotism and Poetry in Eighteenth-Century Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The poetry of the mid- and late-eighteenth century has long been regarded as primarily private and apolitical; in this wide-ranging study Dustin Griffin argues that in fact the poets of the period were addressing the great issues of national life--rebellion at home, imperial wars abroad, an expanding commercial empire, an emerging new British national identity. Taking up the topic of patriotic verse, Griffin shows that poets such as Thomas Gray, Christopher Smart, Oliver Goldsmith, and William Cowper were engaged in the century-long debate about the nature of true patriotism.
War, State, and Society in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland
War, State, and Society in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland - 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 War, State, and Society in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland write by Stephen Conway. This book was released on 2006-01-05. War, State, and Society in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The middle of the 18th century was a period of continuous warfare as Britain, and therefore Ireland, was involved in conflict with Spain and France. This text explores the impact of these wars and the consequences for the economy, society, politics, religious divisions, and attitudes to empire.
A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry
A 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 A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry write by Christine Gerrard. This book was released on 2014-02-10. A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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).
