A companion to eighteenth-century poetry

Author(s)

• Gerrard, Christine

Bibliographic Information

A companion to eighteenth-century poetry

edited by Christine Gerrard

（Blackwell companions to literature and culture）

Wiley Blackwell, 2014

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

A COMPANION TO & EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY A COMPANION TO & EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY Edited by Christine Gerrard This wide-ranging Companion reflects the dramatic transformation that has taken place in the study of eighteenth-century poetry over the past two decades. New essays by leading scholars in the field address an expanded poetic canon that now incorporates verse by many women poets and other formerly marginalized poetic voices. The volume engages with topical critical debates such as the production and consumption of literary texts, the constructions of femininity, sentiment and sensibility, enthusiasm, politics and aesthetics, and the growth of imperialism. The Companion opens with a section on contexts, considering eighteenth-century poetry's relationships with such topics as party politics, religion, science, the visual arts, and the literary marketplace. A series of close readings of specific poems follows, ranging from familiar texts such as Pope's The Rape of the Lock to slightly less well-known works such as Swift's "Stella" poems and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Town Eclogues. Essays on forms and genres, and a series of more provocative contributions on significant themes and debates, complete the volume. The Companion gives readers a thorough grounding in both the background and the substance of eighteenth-century poetry, and is designed to be used alongside David Fairer and Christine Gerrard's Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (3rd edition, 2014).

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 Christine Gerrard Part I Contexts and Perspectives 5 1 Poetry, Politics, and the Rise of Party 7 Christine Gerrard 2 Poetry, Politics, and Empire 23 Suvir Kaul 3 Poetry and Science 38 Clark Lawlor 4 Poetry and Religion 53 Emma Mason 5 Poetic Enthusiasm 69 John D. Morillo 6 Poetry and the Visual Arts 83 Robert Jones 7 Poetry, Popular Culture, and the Literary Marketplace 97 George Justice 8 Women Poets and Their Writing in Eighteenth-Century Britain 111 Charlotte Grant 9 Poetry, Sentiment, and Sensibility 127 Jennifer Keith Part II Readings 143 10 John Gay, The Shepherd's Week 145 Mina Gorji 11 Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock and "Eloisa to Abelard" 157 Valerie Rumbold 12 Jonathan Swift, the "Stella" Poems 170 Ros Ballaster 13 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Six Town Eclogues and Other Poems 184 Isobel Grundy 14 James Thomson, The Seasons 197 Christine Gerrard 15 Stephen Duck, The Thresher's Labour, and Mary Collier, The Woman's Labour 209 John Goodridge 16 Mary Leapor, "Crumble-Hall" 223 David Fairer 17 Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of Imagination 237 Adam Rounce 18 Samuel Johnson, London and The Vanity of Human Wishes 252 David F. Venturo 19 William Collins, "Ode on the Poetical Character" 265 John Sitter 20 Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard 277 Suvir Kaul 21 Christopher Smart, Jubilate Agno 290 Chris Mounsey 22 Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, and George Crabbe, The Village 303 Caryn Chaden 23 William Cowper, The Task 316 Freya Johnston 24 Robert Burns, "Tam o' Shanter" 329 Murray Pittock Part III Forms and Genres 339 25 Rhyming Couplets and Blank Verse 341 Richard Bradford 26 Epic and Mock-Heroic 356 Richard Terry 27 Verse Satire 369 Brean Hammond 28 The Ode 386 Margaret M. Koehler 29 The Georgic 403 Juan Christian Pellicer 30 The Verse Epistle 417 Bill Overton Part IV Themes and Debates 429 31 The Constructions of Femininity 431 Kathryn R. King 32 Whig and Tory Poetics 444 Abigail Williams 33 The Classical Inheritance 458 David Hopkins 34 Augustanism and Pre-Romanticism 473 Thomas Woodman 35 Recovering the Past: Shakespeare, Spenser, and British Poetic Tradition 486 Carolyn D. Williams 36 The Pleasures and Perils of the Imagination 500 Paul Baines 37 The Sublime 515 Shaun Irlam 38 Poetry and the City 534 Markman Ellis 39 Cartography and the Poetry of Place 549 Rachel Crawford 40 Rural Poetry and the Self-Taught Tradition 563 Bridget Keegan 41 Poetry Beyond the English Borders 577 Gerard Carruthers Index 590

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Details

• NCID: BB14819354
• ISBN:
  • 9781118702291
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Chichester
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 605 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 821.509
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA33407255