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P. Meyer Spacks, Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetry

P. Meyer Spacks, Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetry

Publié le par Bérenger Boulay

Patricia Meyer Spacks, Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetry, Wiley-Blackwell, jan. 2009, 304 p.

  • ISBN: 978-1-4051-5361-4 (Hardcover)
  • £50.00 / €62.50
  • Autre format: Paperback

Présentation de l'éditeur:


Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetryrecaptures for modern readers the urgency, distinctiveness andrewarding nature of this challenging and powerful body of poetry.


  • An essential guide to reading eighteenth-century poetry, written by world-renowned critic, Patricia Meyer Spacks
  • Exposes the multiplicity of forms, tones, and topics engaged by poets during this period
  • Providesin-depth analysis of poems by established figures such as AlexanderPope and Jonathan Swift, as well as work by less familiar figures,including Anne Finch and Mary Leapor
  • A broadly chronological structure incorporates close reading alongside insightful contextual and historical detail
  • Capturesthe power and uniqueness of eighteenth-century poetry, creating anideal guide for those returning to this period, or delving into it forthe first time

PATRICIA MEYER SPACKS is Edgar F. Shannon Professor ofEighteenth-Century Literature at the University of Virginia. She is theauthor of numerous books, and amongst other honors, was Vice Presidentof the American Academy of Arts and Sciences from 2001-2006.


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.

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