The Cambridge Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Poetry

by John Sitter
The Cambridge Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Poetry
Author: John Sitter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2011-10-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139502468
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For readers daunted by the formal structures and rhetorical sophistication of eighteenth-century English poetry, this introduction by John Sitter brings the techniques and the major poets of the period 1700–1785 triumphantly to life. Sitter begins by offering a guide to poetic forms ranging from heroic couplets to blank verse, then demonstrates how skilfully male and female poets of the period used them as vehicles for imaginative experience, feelings and ideas. He then provides detailed analyses of individual works by poets from Finch, Swift and Pope, to Gray, Cowper and Barbauld. An approachable introduction to English poetry and major poets of the eighteenth century, this book provides a grounding in poetic analysis useful to students and general readers of literature.

The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel

by John Richetti
The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Author: John Richetti
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1996-09-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139825046
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In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. In various ways each seeks to show that the novel is not defined primarily by its realism of representation, but by the new ideological and cultural functions it serves in the emerging modern world of print culture. Sentimental and Gothic fiction and fiction by women are discussed, alongside detailed readings of work by Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Henry Fielding, Sterne, Smollett, and Burney. This multifaceted picture of the novel in its formative decades provides a comprehensive and indispensable guide for students of the eighteenth-century British novel, and its place within the culture of its time.

The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Thought

by Frans De Bruyn
The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Thought
Author: Frans De Bruyn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2021-05-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 110708248X
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A survey of influential thinkers and their ideas in eighteenth-century British philosophy, science, religion, history, law, and economics.

The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry

by Christopher Beach
The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry
Author: Christopher Beach
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2003-10-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521891493
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The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry is designed to give readers a brief but thorough introduction to the various movements, schools, and groups of American poets in the twentieth century. It will help readers to understand and analyze modern and contemporary poems. The first part of the book deals with the transition from the nineteenth-century lyric to the modernist poem, focussing on the work of major modernists such as Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, and W. C. Williams. In the second half of the book, the focus is on groups such as the poets of the Harlem Renaissance, the New Critics, the Confessionals, and the Beats. In each chapter, discussions of the most important poems are placed in the larger context of literary, cultural, and social history.

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

by Peter Howarth
The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Author: Peter Howarth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2011-11-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139502328
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Modernist poems are some of the twentieth-century's major cultural achievements, but they are also hard work to read. This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. In-depth chapters on Pound, Eliot, Yeats and the American modernists outline how formal experiments take on the new world of mass media, democracies, total war and changing religious belief. Chapters on the avant-gardes and later modernism examine how their styles shift as they try to re-make the community of readers. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English.

The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry

by Linda K. Hughes
The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry
Author: Linda K. Hughes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2010-05-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521856248
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An overview of British poetry from 1830 to 1901, with a glossary of literary terms and guide to further reading.

The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry

by John Sitter
The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry
Author: John Sitter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2001-03-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139825976
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The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry analyzes major premises, preoccupations, and practices of English poets writing from 1700 to the 1790s. These specially-commissioned essays avoid familiar categories and single-author approaches to look at the century afresh. Chapters consider such large poetic themes as nature, the city, political passions, the relation of death to desire and dreams, appeals to an imagined future, and the meanings of 'sensibility'. Other chapters explore historical developments such as the connection between poetic couplets and conversation, the conditions of publication, changing theories of poetry and imagination, growing numbers of women poets and readers, the rise of a self-consciously national tradition, and the place of lyric poetry in thought and practice. The essays are well supported by supplementary material including a chronology of the period and detailed guides to further reading. Altogether the volume provides an invaluable resource for scholars and students.