The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800

The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800
Author: Jack Lynch
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 817
Release: 2016-11-10
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0191019682

In the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the poetry published in Britain between the Restoration and the end of the eighteenth century, forty-four authorities from six countries survey the poetry of the age in all its richness and diversity—serious and satirical, public and private, by men and women, nobles and peasants, whether published in deluxe editions or sung on the streets. The contributors discuss poems in social contexts, poetic identities, poetic subjects, poetic form, poetic genres, poetic devices, and criticism. Even experts in eighteenth-century poetry will see familiar poems from new angles, and all readers will encounter poems they've never read before. The book is not a chronologically organized literary history, nor an encyclopaedia, nor a collection of thematically related essays; rather it is an attempt to provide a systematic overview of these poetic works, and to restore it to a position of centrality in modern criticism.

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800
Author: George Watson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1698
Release: 1971-07-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521079341

More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 2 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.

English Literature, 1660-1800

English Literature, 1660-1800
Author: Curt Arno Zimansky
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 720
Release: 2015-03-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1400871948

The Philological Quarterly's annual bibliographies of modern studies in English neoclassical literature, published originally from 1961 to 1970, are reproduced in two volumes. Readers will find the same features that distinguished earlier compilations in the series: inclusive listing of significant works published in each year (including sections on the historical and cultural background as well as literature), authoritative reviews of important works, critical comments, and a full index that is in itself an indispensable reference tool. Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Eighteenth-Century Women Poets

Eighteenth-Century Women Poets
Author: Moira Ferguson
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1995-11-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1438402627

This book examines the poems of three Englishwomen—washerwoman Mary Collier, middle-class feminist polemicist Mary Scott, Bristol milkwoman Ann Yearsley, and Scottish dairywoman from Ayrshire, Janet Little. It questions how national identity might have influenced gender and class affiliations, and, reciprocally, how gender might have determined a nationalist impulse, particularly as it played out during the revolutionary period (1770-1800) in which most of the texts were written.

A Bibliography of Thomas Gray, 1917-1951

A Bibliography of Thomas Gray, 1917-1951
Author: Herbert W. Starr
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2017-01-31
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1512818879

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

The Cat and the Human Imagination

The Cat and the Human Imagination
Author: Katharine M. Rogers
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2001-03-28
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780472087501

An intelligent, amusing, and affectionate look at cats in history, literature, and art

Byron, the Bible, and Religion

Byron, the Bible, and Religion
Author: Wolf Z. Hirst
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 1991
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780874134018

This work consists of eight essays selected from papers given at the Twelfth International Byron Symposium. Much of Byron's poetry is examined, but the focus is on the Mysteries and Don Juan. The subjects include the Cain figure, Byron's skepticism, his attitude toward Christianity and religion in general, and his literary use of the Bible.