Title:
Reading eighteenth-century poetry / Patricia Meyer Spacks.
Reading poetry
Author:
Spacks, Patricia Meyer.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Publisher:
Wiley-Blackwell,
Publication Place:
Chichester :
ISBN:
9781405153614 (hbk.)
140515361X (hbk.)
9781405153621 (pbk.)
1405153628 (pbk.)
Subject:
English poetry -- History and criticism. -- 18th century.
English poetry -- Appreciation.
Series:
Reading poetry
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.
Physical Description:
289 p;
Electronic Location:
http://opac.nebis.ch/cgi-bin/showAbstract.pl?u20=9781405153614
Publication Date:
2009.
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