The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521650908)

This volume analyzes major premises, preoccupations, and practices of a wide range of English poets writing from 1700 to the 1790s, including Pope and Thomson, Anna Seward and Erasmus Darwin. Specially commissioned essays by leading scholars avoid familiar categories and single-author approaches to consider such large poetic themes as nature, the city, political passions, the relation of death to desire and dreams, the rise of a national tradition, appeals to an imagined future, and the meanings of "sensibility." The essays are supported by a chronology and guides to further reading.

Author: John Sitter
ISBN-10: 0521650909
ISBN-13: 9780521650908
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/02/2001
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.54h x 6.12w x 0.95d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2002 pg. 876