Fairer / Gerrard Eighteenth-Century Poetry

An Annotated Anthology
3. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-82470-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 688 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Annotated Anthologies

Currently the definitive text in the field and now available inan expanded third edition, Eighteenth-Century Poetrypresents the rich diversity of English poetry from 1700-1800 inauthoritative texts and with full scholarly annotation.
* Balanced to reflect current interests and"favorites" (including prominent poets like Finch,Swift, Pope, Montagu, Johnson, Gray, Burns, and Cowper) as wellas less familiar material, offering a variety of voices andnew directions for research and learning
* Includes 46 new poems with more texts by women poets and theinclusion of four additional poets (Mary Barber, MehetabelWright, Anna Seward, and Mary Robinson); poems reflecting newecological approaches to 18th-century literature; and poems on theart of writing
* Accessible and user-friendly, with generous head notes, fullfoot-of-page annotations, an expanded thematic index, and avisually appealing text design

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fairer, David

Gerrard, Christine

Über Autor(innen)

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).