The Cambridge introduction to eighteenth-century poetry / John Sitter.
Sitter, John E.
2011
PR553 .S58 2011 (Mapit)
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Title The Cambridge introduction to eighteenth-century poetry / John Sitter.
Author Sitter, John E.
ISBN 9780521612784 (pbk.)
0521612780 (pbk.)
9780521848244
0521848245
Publication Details Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Language English
Description xii, 246 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number PR553 .S58 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 821/.509
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series Cambridge introductions to literature.
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Introduction
Part I. Voice: 1. Voice in eighteenth-century poetry; 2. The Heroic couplet continuum; 3. Vocal engagement: reading Pope's An Essay on Criticism; 4. Talking in tetrameter; 5. Blank verse and stanzaic poetry
Part II. Poetic Consciousness: 6. Satiric poetry; 7. Pope as metapoet; 8. Metapoetry beyond Pope
Part III. Vision: 9. Reading visions; 10. Personification; 11. Prophecy and prospects of society; 12. Ecological prospects and natural knowledge
A concluding note: then and now.

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