Poems Upon Several Occasions
Author : George Granville Baron Lansdowne
Publisher :
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 24,77 MB
Release : 1712
Category : Occasional verse, English
ISBN :
Author : George Granville Baron Lansdowne
Publisher :
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 24,77 MB
Release : 1712
Category : Occasional verse, English
ISBN :
Author : Aphra Behn
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 11,81 MB
Release : 1684
Category :
ISBN :
Author : William Congreve
Publisher :
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,89 MB
Release : 1752
Category : English poetry
ISBN :
Author : John Pomfret
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 39,12 MB
Release : 1757
Category :
ISBN :
Author : George Granville (Baron Lansdowne.)
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 25,93 MB
Release : 1732
Category :
ISBN :
Author : John Gay
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 22,69 MB
Release : 1775
Category :
ISBN :
Author : John Pomfret
Publisher :
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 14,35 MB
Release : 1753
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Matthew Prior
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 32,22 MB
Release : 1771
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Matthew Prior
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 39,13 MB
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1107634490
This 1905 volume contains the complete text of Prior's Poems on Several Occasions, taken from the folio of 1718.
Author : Michael L. Stapleton
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 24,44 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780874138498
Admired and Understood analyzes Behn's only pure verse collection, Poems upon Several Occasions (1684), and situates her in her literary milieu as a poet. Behn's book demonstrates her desire for acceptance in her literary culture, to be admired and understood, as she puts its, the antitheses of what many surmise from reading her other works - that she saw herself primarily as a guerilla critic of her culture's views on race, class, and gender. The introduction to Admired and Understood argues that her colleagues thought of her as poet first, rather than as a dramatist, reviews current criticism about Behn, and provides a brief overview of late seventeenth-century poetical theory. The first chapter explains the intricately interwoven structure of Behn's collection. The next two chapters concern intertextual linkages between Behn and Abraham Cowley, as well as the influence of Thomas Creech's translations of Horace, Theocritus, and Lucretius on her poetics. The ensuing chapters concern Behn's response to Rochester's libertine aesthetic, a close reading of On a Juniper-Tree (a poem central to her collection), Katherine Philips as Behn's most important predecessor as a woman writin