The Cambridge introduction to eighteenth-century poetry / John Sitter.

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Main Author: Sitter, John E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Pt. 1. Voice. Voice in eighteenth-century poetry ; The heroic couplet continuum ; Vocal engagement: reading Pope's An essay on criticism ; Talking in tetrameter ; Blank verse and stanzaic poetry
  • Pt. 2. Poetic consciousness. Satiric poetry ; Pope as metapoet ; Metapoetry beyond Pope
  • Pt. 3. Vision. Reading visions ; Personification ; Prophecy and prospects of society ; Ecological prospects and natural knowledge
  • A concluding note: then and now.