Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetry, by world-renowned critic Patricia Meyer Spacks, recaptures for modern readers the urgency, distinctiveness and rewardingnature of the poetry written in this period and features analyses of poems bywell-known writers such as Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, as well as lessfamiliar figures, including the women poets Anne Finch and Mary Leapor. For those returning to eighteenth-century poetry, or delving into it for the first time, this book will prove an essential guide to reading these challenging andpowerful works of literature. INDICE: Preamble.1. How to Live: The Moral and the Social.2. Matters of Feeling: Poetry of Emotion.3. The Power of Detail: Description in Verse.4. High Language and Low: The Diction of Poetry.5. Alexander Pope and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.6. How to Live: The Place of Work.7. Matters of Feeling: Forms of the Personal.8. Structures of Energy, Structures of Leisure: Ode and Blank Verse.9. Old Poetry, Old Language: Imitation and Fraud.10. Outliers: Mary Leapor and Christopher Smart.11. How to Live: Poetry and Politics.12. Matters of Feeling: Emotion Celebrated.13. Narrative and Reflection.14. Poetic Languages: Diction Old and New.15. Mary Robinson and William Cowper.Bibliography.Index
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-5362-1
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 304
- Fecha Publicación: 30/01/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés