Voice and context in eighteenth-century verse : order in variety /: order in variety. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Joanna Fowler, Loughborough University, UK and Allan Ingram, Professor of English, University of Northumbria, UK.
• Editors: Fowler, Joanna, 1983-; Ingram, Allan
• Contents: Acknowledgements; Authors' Biographies; Professor Bill Overton, 1946-2012: A Personal Memoir; Hermann Josef Real; Introduction; Allan Ingram and Joanna Fowler; PART I: FORM AND INFLUENCE; Pope's Horatian Voice; Nigel Wood; Celebrating Universal Beauty: Henry Brooke's In-between Poetics; John Baker; Argumentative Emphases in Pope's An Essay on Man; Tom Jones; 'Stricken Deer and Digressive Diplomacy': The Influence of Matthew Prior upon William Cowper; Conrad Brunström; PART II: SCIENCE AND NATURE; 'When Universal Nature I Survey': Philosophical Poetry Before 1750; Megan Kitching; Metering Mineral Resources: Verse Jewels on Earth's Treasures; Kevin Cope; Deserted Village and Animated Nature: An Ecocritical Approach to Oliver Goldsmith; Brycchan Carey; Footnotes to a Nation: Richard Llwyd's Beaumaris Bay (1800); Elizabeth Edwards; PART III: WOMEN'S VERSE AND GENRES; 'I wish the child, I call my own': [Pro]Creative Experience in Eighteenth-Century Poetry; Ashleigh Blackwood; Figs and Fame: Envisioning the Future in Women's Poetry; Mascha Hansen; Women Poets and the Mock-Heroic Elegy; Joanna Fowler; PART IV: SELF AND OTHERS; Getting Personal: Swift's Non-Public Poetry; Allan Ingram; Blind Woman on the Rampage: Priscilla Pointon's Grand Tour of the Midlands and the question of the legitimacy of sources for biography; Chris Mounsey; 'What a Creature is Man': The Melancholia, Literary Ambition, and Manly Fortitude of Robert Burns; Leigh Wetherall Dickson; Bibliography; Index
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (288 pages), (2 illustrations)
• Subjects: 821/.509; General; English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Versification; Voice in literature; Poetics -- Early works to 1800; European/English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary studies: poetry & poets; Literature: history & criticism; Literary studies: general
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137487643
• Related ISBNs: 113748764X
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