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The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry
Hardback
Main Details
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The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry
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| Authors and Contributors |
Edited by John Sitter
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| Series | Cambridge Companions to Literature |
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Hardback | | Pages:320 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 238,Width 159 |
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| Category/Genre | Literary studies - c 1500 to c 1800
Literary studies - poetry and poets |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780521650908
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| Classifications | Dewey:821.509 |
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| Audience | | Tertiary Education (US: College) | | Professional & Vocational | |
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| Illustrations |
3 Halftones, unspecified
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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| Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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| Publication Date |
2 April 2001 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
This volume analyzes major premises, preoccupations, and practices of a wide range of English poets writing from 1700 to the 1790s, including Pope and Thomson, Anna Seward and Erasmus Darwin. Specially commissioned essays by leading scholars avoid familiar categories and single-author approaches to consider such large poetic themes as nature, the city, political passions, the relation of death to desire and dreams, the rise of a national tradition, appeals to an imagined future, and the meanings of "sensibility." The essays are supported by a chronology and guides to further reading.
Reviews"The essays in this volume provides useful and accessible background material for students of 18th-century poetry...Recommanded for all academic collections, undergraduate and graduate." CHOICE Jan 2002
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