Reading eighteenth-century poetry / Patricia Meyer Spacks.

Author/creator Spacks, Patricia Meyer
Format Book
Publication InfoChichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Descriptionviii, 289 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
English poetry--18th century. --History and criticism.
English poetry--Appreciation.

Variant title Reading 18th-century poetry
SeriesReading poetry
Reading poetry. ^A1143418
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [267]-278) and index.
LCCN 2008033217
ISBN9781405153614 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN140515361X (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9781405153621 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN1405153628 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PR 551 .S66 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold