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A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry
Christine Gerrard (Edited by), Gerrard (Author)
9781405113168, Wiley
Hardback, published 13 September 2006
624 pages
25.4 x 18.2 x 4.2 cm, 1.225 kg
A COMPANION TO & EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY A COMPANION TO & EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY This wide-ranging Companion reflects the dramatic transformation that has taken place in the study of eighteenth-century poetry over the past two decades. New essays by leading scholars in the field address an expanded poetic canon that now incorporates verse by many women poets and other formerly marginalized poetic voices. The volume engages with topical critical debates such as the production and consumption of literary texts, the constructions of femininity, sentiment and sensibility, enthusiasm, politics and aesthetics, and the growth of imperialism. The Companion opens with a section on contexts, considering eighteenth-century poetry’s relationships with such topics as party politics, religion, science, the visual arts, and the literary marketplace. A series of close readings of specific poems follows, ranging from familiar texts such as Pope’s The Rape of the Lock to slightly less well-known works such as Swift’s “Stella” poems and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Town Eclogues. Essays on forms and genres, and a series of more provocative contributions on significant themes and debates, complete the volume. The Companion gives readers a thorough grounding in both the background and the substance of eighteenth-century poetry, and is designed to be used alongside David Fairer and Christine Gerrard’s Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (3rd edition, 2014).
Edited by Christine Gerrard
Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 PART I Contexts and Perspectives 5 1 Poetry, Politics, and the Rise of Party 7 2 Poetry, Politics, and Empire 23 3 Poetry and Science 38 4 Poetry and Religion 53 5 Poetic Enthusiasm 69 6 Poetry and the Visual Arts 83 7 Poetry, Popular Culture, and the Literary Marketplace 97 8 Women Poets and Their Writing in Eighteenth-Century Britain 111 9 Poetry, Sentiment, and Sensibility 127 PART II Readings 143 10 John Gay, The Shepherd's Week 145 11 Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock and "Eloisa to Abelard" 157 12 Jonathan Swift, the "Stella" Poems 170 13 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Six Town Eclogues and Other Poems 184 14 James Thomson, The Seasons 197 15 Stephen Duck, The Thresher's Labour, and Mary Collier, The Woman's Labour 209 16 Mary Leapor, "Crumble-Hall" 223 17 Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of Imagination 237 18 Samuel Johnson, London and The Vanity of Human Wishes 252 19 William Collins, "Ode on the Poetical Character" 265 20 Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard 277 21 Christopher Smart, Jubilate Agno 290 22 Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, and George Crabbe, The Village 303 23 William Cowper, The Task 316 24 Robert Burns, "Tam o' Shanter" 329 PART III Forms and Genres 339 25 Rhyming Couplets and Blank Verse 341 26 Epic and Mock-Heroic 356 27 Verse Satire 369 28 The Ode 386 29 The Georgic 403 30 The Verse Epistle 417 PART IV Themes and Debates 429 31 The Constructions of Femininity 431 32 Whig and Tory Poetics 444 33 The Classical Inheritance 458 34 Augustanism and Pre-Romanticism 473 35 Recovering the Past: Shakespeare, Spenser, and British Poetic Tradition 486 36 The Pleasures and Perils of the Imagination 500 37 The Sublime 515 38 Poetry and the City 534 39 Cartography and the Poetry of Place 549 40 Rural Poetry and the Self-Taught Tradition 563 41 Poetry Beyond the English Borders 577 Index 590
Christine Gerrard
Christine Gerrard
Suvir Kaul
Clark Lawlor
Emma Mason
John D. Morillo
Robert Jones
George Justice
Charlotte Grant
Jennifer Keith
Mina Gorji
Valerie Rumbold
Ros Ballaster
Isobel Grundy
Christine Gerrard
John Goodridge
David Fairer
Adam Rounce
David F. Venturo
John Sitter
Suvir Kaul
Chris Mounsey
Caryn Chaden
Freya Johnston
Murray Pittock
Richard Bradford
Richard Terry
Brean Hammond
Margaret M. Koehler
Juan Christian Pellicer
Bill Overton
Kathryn R. King
Abigail Williams
David Hopkins
Thomas Woodman
Carolyn D. Williams
Paul Baines
Shaun Irlam
Markman Ellis
Rachel Crawford
Bridget Keegan
Gerard Carruthers
Subject Areas: Literature: history & criticism [DS]
