Reading eighteenth-century poetry /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2009.
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| Series: | Reading poetry.
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Table of Contents:
- How to live : the moral and the social
- Matters of feeling : poetry of emotion
- The power of detail : description in verse
- High language and low : the diction of poetry
- Alexander Pope and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
- How to live : the place of work
- Matters of feeling : forms of the personal
- Structures of energy, structures of leisure : ode and blank verse
- Old poetry, old language : imitation and fraud
- Outliers : Mary Leapor and Christopher Smart
- How to live : poetry and politics
- Matters of feeling : emotion celebrated
- Narrative and reflection
- Poetic languages : diction old and new
- Mary Robinson and William Cowper.