This collection of essays is a reassessment of the importance of verse as a medium in the long eighteenth century, and as an invitation for readers to explore many of the less familiar figures dealt with, alongside the received names of the standard criticism of the period. The volume is intended both to open new areas of research for fellow academics and to help revitalize the study of eighteenth-century verse for a student readership. Above all, the book seeks to strip this period form of the accretions of solid respectability it acquired during earlier centuries and to allow it to speak to current readers with some of the directness of the original texts.
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| Acknowledgements |
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| Notes on Contributors |
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| Professor Bill Overton, 1946--2012: A Personal Memoir |
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| Introduction |
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Part I Form and Influence |
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2 Celebrating Universal Beauty: Henry Brooke's In-between Poetics |
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3 Argumentative Emphases in Pope's An Essay on Man |
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4 `Stricken Deer and Digressive Diplomacy': The Influence of Matthew Prior upon William Cowper |
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Part II Science and Nature |
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5 `When Universal Nature I Survey': Philosophical Poetry Before 1750 |
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6 Metering Mineral Resources: Verse Jewels on Earth's Treasures |
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7 Deserted Village and Animated Nature: An Ecocritical Approach to Oliver Goldsmith |
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8 Footnotes to a Nation: Richard Llwyd's Beaumaris Bay (1800) |
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Part III Women's Verse and Genres |
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9 `I wish the child, I call my own': [ Pro]Creative Experience in the Poetry of Jane Cave Winscom |
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10 Figs and Fame: Envisioning the Future in Women's Poetry |
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11 Women Poets and the Mock-Heroic Elegy |
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12 Getting Personal: Swift's Non-Public Poetry |
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13 Blind Woman on the Rampage: Priscilla Pointon's Grand Tour of the Midlands and the Question of the Legitimacy of Sources for Biography |
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14 `What a Creature is Man': The Melancholia, Literary Ambition and Manly Fortitude of Robert Burns |
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| Bibliography |
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John Baker, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France Conrad Brunström, Maynooth University, Ireland Ashleigh Blackwood, University of Northumbria, UK Brycchan Carey, Kingston University, UK Kevin Cope, Louisiana State University, USA Elizabeth Edwards, University of Wales, UK Joanna Fowler, University of Loughborough, UK Mascha Hansen, University of Greifswald, Germany Allan Ingram, University of Northumbria, UK Tom Jones, University of St Andrews, UK Megan Kitching Queen Mary, University of London, UK Chris Mounsey, University of Winchester, UK Hermann Josef Real, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Germany Leigh Wetherall Dickson, Northumbria University, UK Nigel Wood, Loughborough University, UK
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