Introduction : the future of eighteenth-century poetry / John Sitter
Couplets and conversation / J. Paul Hunter
Political passions / Christine Gerrard
Publishing and reading poetry / Barbara M. Benedict
The city in eighteenth-century poetry / Brean Hammond
"Nature" poetry / Tim Fulford
Questions in poetics : why and how poetry matters / John Sitter
Eighteenth-century women poets and readers / Claudia Thomas Kairoff
Creating a national poetry : the tradition of Spenser and Milton / David Fairer
The return to the ode / Ralph Cohen
A poetry of absence / David B. Morris
The poetry of sensibility / Patricia Meyer Spacks
"Pre-Romanticism" and the ends of eighteenth-century poetry / Jennifer Keith.