TY - BOOK AU - Gerrard,Christine TI - A companion to eighteenth-century poetry SN - 1405113162 (hardback : alk. paper) U1 - 821.509 PY - 2014/// CY - Malden, MA PB - Blackwell Pub. KW - English poetry KW - History and criticism N1 - Introduction: Christine Gerrard (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University) Part I: Contexts and Perspectives: 1. Poetry, Politics and the Rise of Party: Christine Gerrard (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University) 2. Poetry, Politics, and Empire: Suvir Kaul (University of Pennsylvania) 3. Poetry and Science: Clark Lawlor (University of Northumbria at Newcastle) 4. Poetry and Religion: Emma Mason (University of Warwick) 5. Poetic Enthusiasm: John D. Morillo (North Carolina State University) 6. Poetry and the Visual Arts: Robert Jones (University of Leeds) 7. Poetry, Popular Culture, and the Literary Marketplace: George Justice (University of Missouri-Columbia) 8. Women Poets and their Writing in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Charlotte Grant (formerly Senior Research Fellow at the AHRC Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior) 9. Poetry, Sentiment, and Sensibility: Jennifer Keith (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) Part II: Readings: 10. John Gay, The Shepherd's Week: Mina Gorji (Magdalen College, Oxford University) 11. Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock and "Eloisa to Abelard": Valerie Rumbold (University of Birmingham) 12. Jonathan Swift, The "Stella" Poems: Ros Ballaster (Mansfield College, Oxford) 13. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Six Town Eclogues and Other Poems: Isobel Grundy (University of Alberta, Canada) 14. James Thomson, The Seasons: Christine Gerrard (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University) 15. Stephen Duck, The Thresher's Labour, and Mary Collier, The Woman's Labour: John Goodridge (Nottingham Trent University) 16. Mary Leapor, "Crumble-Hall": David Fairer (University of Leeds) 17. Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of Imagination: Adam Rounce (Keele University) 18. Samuel Johnson, London and The Vanity of Human Wishes: David F. Venturo (College of New Jersey) 19. William Collins, "Ode on the Poetical Character": John Sitter (University of Notre Dame) 20. Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard: Suvir Kaul (University of Pennsylvania) 21. Christopher Smart, Jubilate Agno: Chris Mounsey (University of Winchester) 22. Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, and George Crabbe, The Village: Caryn Chaden (DePaul University) 23. William Cowper, The Task: Freya Johnston (University of Warwick) 24. Robert Burns, "Tam o' Shanter": Murray Pittock (Manchester University) Part III: Forms and Genres: 25. Rhyming Couplets and Blank Verse: Richard Bradford (University of Ulster, Coleraine) 26. Epic and Mock-Heroic: Richard Terry (University of Sunderland) 27. Verse Satire: Brean Hammond (University of Nottingham) 28. The Ode: Margaret M. Koehler (Otterbein College) 29. The Georgic: Juan Christian Pellicer (University of Oslo) 30. The Verse Epistle: Bill Overton (Loughborough University) Part IV: Themes and Debates: 31. The Constructions of Femininity: Kathryn R. King (University of Montevallo, Alabama) 32. Whig and Tory Poetics: Abigail Williams (St Peter's College, Oxford University) 33. The Classical Inheritance: David Hopkins (Universit UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip064/2005034701.html UR - http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=014737481&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0802/2005034701-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0802/2005034701-d.html ER -