Eighteenth Century Poetry and Prose
Author : Louis Ignatius Bredvold
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Page : 942 pages
File Size : 13,42 MB
Release : 1932
Category : English
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Author : Louis Ignatius Bredvold
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Page : 942 pages
File Size : 13,42 MB
Release : 1932
Category : English
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Page : pages
File Size : 47,26 MB
Release : 1973
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Author : Louis Ignatius Bredvold
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Page : 1274 pages
File Size : 48,17 MB
Release : 2003-01
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ISBN : 9780758147387
Author : Louis Ignatius Bredvold
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Page : 1493 pages
File Size : 29,79 MB
Release : 1973
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Author : Roger Lonsdale
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1800 pages
File Size : 31,67 MB
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0191501425
No previous anthology has succeeded in illustrating so thoroughly the kinds of verse actually written in the eighteenth century. The familiar tradition is fully represented by selections from such poets as Pope, Swift, Tomson, Gray, Smart, Goldsmith, Cowper, Burns, and Blake. In addition, the anthology includes verse by many forgotten writers, both men and women, from all levels of society. Although they have never figured in conventional literary history, they wrote humorous, idiosyncratic, and graphic verse about their personal experience and the world around them, in a way that should challenge received ideas about the period's restraints and inhibitions.
Author : Eric Rothstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 44,78 MB
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317589173
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Poetry 1660-1780, originally published in 1981, considers poetry written between 1660 and 1780, a period which, although largely recovered from its nineteenth-century reputation, still attracts widely varying critical responses. Abandoning the old labels such as ‘neoclassicism’, ‘romanticism’ and ‘sensibility’, the author focuses on descriptions of genres and their formal elements and traces the broader patterns of literary and historical change running through the period. Eric Rothstein describes different poetic modes- panegyric, satire, pastoral and topographical poetry, the epistle, and the ode- to suggest their aesthetical possibilities as well as their process of change. He also considers style and the uses of the past, topics which have often caused particular problems for the students of the period. What becomes clear is the extraordinary originality, flexibility and power with which Restoration and eighteenth-century poets handles the stylistic assumptions and the body of poems they inherited and employed in their own works.
Author : Pat Rogers
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Page : 220 pages
File Size : 19,15 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Literary Criticism
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Author : John L. Mahoney
Publisher : D.C. Heath
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 10,59 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Literary Criticism
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Author : Louis Ignatius Bredvold
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Page : 1318 pages
File Size : 39,34 MB
Release : 1956
Category : English literature
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The purpose os this volume is to provide representative selections from English prose and poetry of the eighteenth century for undergraduate courses in that period. In this second edition of the anthology the editors have expanded the contents considerably. Additions have been made from Addison, Pope, Swift, Young, Smart, Burke, and Reynolds, with Blake's comments. The extensive notes and introductions should assist the beginning student to understand the texts, but it is hoped that they will also lead him to explore further in the works listed in the bibliographies.
Author : Jacob Sider Jost
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,32 MB
Release : 2015
Category : English prose literature
ISBN : 9780813936802
Writers have always aspired to immortality, using their works to preserve their patrons, their loved ones, and themselves beyond death. For Pindar, Horace, and Shakespeare, the vehicle of such preservation was poetry. In the eighteenth century, figures such as Joseph Addison, Edward Young, Samuel Richardson, Laetitia Pilkington, Samuel Johnson, and James Boswell invented a new kind of literary immortality, built on the documentary power of prose. For eighteenth-century authors, the rhythms and routines of daily lived experience were too rich to be distilled into verse, and prose genres such as the periodical paper, novel, memoir, essay, and biography promised a new kind of lastingness that responded to the challenges and opportunities of Enlightenment philosophy and evolving religious thought. Prose Immortality, 1711-1819documents this transformation of British literary culture, spanning the eighteenth century and linking journalism, literature, theology, and philosophy. In recovering the centrality of the afterlife to eighteenth-century culture, this prizewinning book offers a versatile and wide-ranging argument that will speak not only to literary scholars but also to historians, scholars of religion, and all readers interested in the power of literature to preserve human experience through time. Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Work of Scholarship in Eighteenth-Century Studies