1st Edition

English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789

By David Fairer Copyright 2003
    316 Pages
    by Routledge

    316 Pages
    by Routledge

    In recent years the canon of eighteenth-century poetry has greatly expanded to include women poets, labouring-class and provincial poets, and many previously unheard voices. Fairer’s book takes up the challenge this ought to pose to our traditional understanding of the subject.

    This book seeks to question some of the structures, categories, and labels that have given the age its reassuring shape in literary history. In doing so Fairer offers a fresh and detailed look at a wide range of material.

    Editors' Preface  Acknowledgements  Author's Preface   1. Between Manuscript and Print   2. Debating Politeness   3. Wit, Imagination, and Mock-Heroic   4. The Verse Letter   5. Pastoral and Georgic   6. The Romantic Mode, 1700-1730   7. Sublimity, Nature and God   8. Recovering the Past   9. Genuine Voices   10. Economics of Landscape  11. Sensibility: Selves, Friends, Communities  Chronology  General Bibliographies  Individual Poets

    Biography

    David Fairer