Eighteenth-Century Poetry

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Eighteenth-Century Poetry is the definitive text presenting the rich diversity of English poetry from 1700 to 1800. This expanded third edition features authoritative texts with full scholarly annotations, encompassing well-known poets like Finch, Swift, Pope, Montagu, Johnson, Gray, Burns, and Cowper, alongside lesser-known voices. It includes 46 new poems, more contributions by women poets, and themes reflecting new ecological approaches and the art of writing. The book is accessible and user-friendly, with generous head notes, full footnotes, an expanded thematic index, and a visually appealing design.
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Eighteenth-Century Poetry is ideal for students, scholars, and general readers interested in English literature and poetry from the eighteenth century, particularly those seeking a comprehensive and annotated collection that includes diverse voices and contemporary scholarly perspectives.

Currently the definitive text in the field and now available in an expanded third edition, Eighteenth-Century Poetry presents the rich diversity of English poetry from 1700-1800 in authoritative texts and with full scholarly annotation.

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Currently the definitive text in the field and now available in an expanded third edition, Eighteenth-Century Poetry presents the rich diversity of English poetry from 1700-1800 in authoritative texts and with full scholarly annotation.

Balanced to reflect current interests and favourites, the collection includes prominent poets like Finch, Swift, Pope, Montagu, Johnson, Gray, Burns, and Cowper, along with less familiar material. It offers a variety of voices and new directions for research and learning.

The edition includes 46 new poems, with more texts by women poets and the inclusion of four additional poets: Mary Barber, Mehetabel Wright, Anna Seward, and Mary Robinson. It features poems reflecting new ecological approaches to 18th-century literature and poems on the art of writing.

Eighteenth-Century Poetry is accessible and user-friendly, with generous head notes, full foot-of-page annotations, an expanded thematic index, and a visually appealing text design.

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John Richetti of the University of Pennsylvania praises this third edition as the essential anthology for teaching eighteenth-century British poetry. He highlights its judicious but wide-ranging selections that balance canonical figures with newly recuperated male and female poets. The annotations are described as superbly informative and authoritative.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781118824757

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 November 2014

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Edition: 3rd edition

Contributors:

Edited by Christine Gerrard
Edited by David Fairer

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 41.0mm

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 244.0mm

Weight: 1066g

Pages: 688

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Series: Blackwell Annotated Anthologies

About the Author

David Fairer is Professor of Eighteenth-Century EnglishLiterature at the University of Leeds, UK. His most recent book,Organising Poetry: The Coleridge Circle 1790-1798 (2009)traces the development of English poetry during the 1790s, buildingon the concerns of his previous comprehensive study,English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789(2003). He is also the author of The Poetry of AlexanderPope (1989) and Pope s Imagination (1984), andeditor of The Correspondence of Thomas Warton (1995) andPope: New Contexts (1990). Christine Gerrard is the Barbara Scott Fellow and Tutor inEnglish at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, UK. She has recently editedvolume 1 of The Complete Correspondence of Samuel Richardson:Correspondence with Aaron Hill and the Hill Family (2013) whichfollows on from her literary biography Aaron Hill: TheMuses' Projector, 1685-1750 (2003). She isthe editor of A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry(Wiley Blackwell, 2006) and the author of The PatriotOpposition to Walpole: Politics, Poetry, and National Myth,1725 1742 (1994).

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