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  3. The Cambridge Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Poetry
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
June 2012
Print publication year:
2011
Online ISBN:
9781139029186
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139029186
Subjects:
Literature, English Literature: General Interest, English Literature 1700-1830
Series:
Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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Book description

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.

Reviews

'Reading this wonderful book is akin to sitting in on a master-class seminar taught by a sensible, affable teacher who is also a rigorous, respected scholar … Sitter has devoted his professional life to the study and teaching of eighteenth-century verse, and this book offers a rich yield of wisdom embedded within a wide range of attractive practical readings. Not to be missed by anyone interested in eighteenth-century poetry.'

A. W. Lee Source: Choice

'… aimed at both students and teachers of the field. Through a series of thematic chapters Sitter explores many of the key aspects of eighteenth-century poetry in terms of form, style, voice, and content.'

Source: The Eighteenth Century

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Contents

Contents
References
Further reading
Selected works that address all or most of the period
Backscheider, Paula R.Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing GenreBaltimoreJohns Hopkins University Press 2005
Doody, Margaret AnneThe Daring Muse: Augustan Poetry ReconsideredCambridge University Press 1985
Fairer, DavidEnglish Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700–1789London and New YorkLongman 2003
Gerrard, ChristineA Companion to Eighteenth-Century PoetryMalden, MABlackwell 2006
Greene, DonaldThe Age of Exuberance: Backgrounds to Eighteenth-Century English LiteratureNew YorkRandom House 1970
Kaul, SuvirPoems of Nation, Anthems of Empire: English Verse in the Long Eighteenth CenturyCharlottesvilleUniversity of Virginia Press 2000
Keith, JenniferPoetry and the Feminine from Behn to CowperNewarkUniversity of Delaware Press 2005
Porter, RoyEnglish Society in the Eighteenth CenturyLondon; New YorkPenguin Books 1990
Rothstein, EricRestoration and Eighteenth Century Poetry, 1660–1780BostonRoutledge and Kegan Paul 1981
Sambrook, JamesThe Eighteenth Century: Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1700–89London; New YorkLongman 1993
Sitter, JohnThe Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century PoetryCambridge University Press 2001
Spacks, Patricia MeyerReading Eighteenth-Century PoetryChichester, UK; Malden, MAWiley-Blackwell 2009
Speck, W. A.Society and Literature in Eighteenth-Century England, 1680–1820: Ideology, Politics, and CultureLondon; New YorkLongman 1998
Sutherland, JamesA Preface to Eighteenth-Century PoetryOxfordClarendon Press 1948
Weinbrot, HowardBritannia’s Issue: The Rise of British Literature from Dryden to OssianCambridge University Press 1993
Significant anthologies
Backscheider, Paula R.Ingrassia, CatherineBritish Women Poets of the Long Eighteenth CenturyBaltimoreJohns Hopkins University Press 2009
Fairer, DavidGerrard, ChristineEighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated AnthologyMalden, MABlackwell Publishing 2004
Roger, LonsdaleEighteenth Century Women Poets: An Oxford AnthologyOxford University Press 1989
Roger, LonsdaleThe New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century VerseOxford University Press 1984

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