The Cambridge introduction to eighteenth-century poetry
"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 fr...
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| Formato: | Recurso Electrónico livro electrónico |
| Idioma: | inglês |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Colecção: | Cambridge introductions to literature.
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| Acesso em linha: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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- Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. Voice: 1. Voice in eighteenth-century poetry; 2. The Heroic couplet continuum; 3. Vocal engagement: reading Pope's An Essay on Criticism; 4. Talking in tetrameter; 5. Blank verse and stanzaic poetry; Part II. Poetic Consciousness: 6. Satiric poetry; 7. Pope as metapoet; 8. Metapoetry beyond Pope; Part III. Vision: 9. Reading visions; 10. Personification; 11. Prophecy and prospects of society; 12. Ecological prospects and natural knowledge; A concluding note: then and now; Suggested reading; Index.