The Cambridge Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Poetry
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作 者:John E. Sitter
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ISBN:9780521612784
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简介
For readers daunted by the formal structures and rhetoricalsophistication of eighteenth-century English poetry, thisintroduction by John Sitter brings the techniques and the majorpoets of the period 1700–1785 triumphantly to life. Sitter beginsby offering a guide to poetic forms ranging from heroic couplets toblank verse, then demonstrates how skilfully male and female poetsof the period used them as vehicles for imaginative experience,feelings and ideas. He then provides detailed analyses ofindividual works by poets from Finch, Swift and Pope, to Gray,Cowper and Barbauld. An approachable introduction to English poetryand major poets of the eighteenth century, this book provides agrounding in poetic analysis useful to students and general readersof literature. · A practical guide that helps students to read and understandeighteenth-century verse forms · Attends to the variety of formsand range of subjects of the poetry · Covers the most importantpoets such as Pope, Swift and Thomson and many other canonical andlesser-known male and female authors
目录
Introduction
Part I. Voice: 1. Voice in eighteenth-century poetry
2. The Heroic couplet continuum
3. Vocal engagement: reading Pope's An Essay on Criticism
4. Talking in tetrameter
5. Blank verse and stanzaic poetry
Part II. Poetic Consciousness: 6. Satiric poetry
7. Pope as metapoet
8. Metapoetry beyond Pope
Part III. Vision: 9. Reading visions
10. Personification
11. Prophecy and prospects of society
12. Ecological prospects and natural knowledge
A concluding note: then and now
Suggested reading
Index
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