Reading eighteenth-century poetry /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Spacks, Patricia Meyer
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Series:Reading poetry.
Subjects:
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.