{"product_id":"a-companion-to-eighteenth-century-poetry-isbn-9781405113168","title":"A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry","description":"\u003cb\u003eA COMPANION TO \u0026amp; EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA COMPANION TO \u0026amp; EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdited by Christine Gerrard \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis wide-ranging \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e reflects the dramatic transformation that has taken place in the study of eighteenth-century poetry over the past two decades. New essays by leading scholars in the field address an expanded poetic canon that now incorporates verse by many women poets and other formerly marginalized poetic voices. The volume engages with topical critical debates such as the production and consumption of literary texts, the constructions of femininity, sentiment and sensibility, enthusiasm, politics and aesthetics, and the growth of imperialism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e opens with a section on contexts, considering eighteenth-century poetry’s relationships with such topics as party politics, religion, science, the visual arts, and the literary marketplace. A series of close readings of specific poems follows, ranging from familiar texts such as Pope’s \u003ci\u003eThe Rape of the Lock\u003c\/i\u003e to slightly less well-known works such as Swift’s “Stella” poems and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s \u003ci\u003eTown Eclogues\u003c\/i\u003e. Essays on forms and genres, and a series of more provocative contributions on significant themes and debates, complete the volume. The \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e gives readers a thorough grounding in both the background and the substance of eighteenth-century poetry, and is designed to be used alongside David Fairer and Christine Gerrard’s \u003ci\u003eEighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e (3\u003csup\u003erd\u003c\/sup\u003e edition, 2014). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristine Gerrard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I Contexts and Perspectives 5\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Poetry, Politics, and the Rise of Party 7\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristine Gerrard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Poetry, Politics, and Empire 23\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSuvir Kaul\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Poetry and Science 38\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eClark Lawlor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Poetry and Religion 53\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmma Mason\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Poetic Enthusiasm 69\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn D. Morillo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Poetry and the Visual Arts 83\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert Jones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Poetry, Popular Culture, and the Literary Marketplace 97\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeorge Justice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Women Poets and Their Writing in Eighteenth-Century Britain 111\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharlotte Grant\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Poetry, Sentiment, and Sensibility 127\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJennifer Keith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART II Readings 143\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 John Gay, The Shepherd's Week 145\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMina Gorji\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock and \"Eloisa to Abelard\" 157\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eValerie Rumbold\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Jonathan Swift, the \"Stella\" Poems 170\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRos Ballaster\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Six Town Eclogues and Other Poems 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIsobel Grundy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 James Thomson, The Seasons 197\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristine Gerrard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Stephen Duck, The Thresher's Labour, and Mary Collier, The Woman's Labour 209\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Goodridge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Mary Leapor, \"Crumble-Hall\" 223\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Fairer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of Imagination 237\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdam Rounce\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Samuel Johnson, London and The Vanity of Human Wishes 252\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid F. Venturo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 William Collins, \"Ode on the Poetical Character\" 265\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Sitter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard 277\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSuvir Kaul\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Christopher Smart, Jubilate Agno 290\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChris Mounsey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, and George Crabbe, The Village 303\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaryn Chaden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 William Cowper, The Task 316\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFreya Johnston\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Robert Burns, \"Tam o' Shanter\" 329\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMurray Pittock\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART III Forms and Genres 339\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Rhyming Couplets and Blank Verse 341\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard Bradford\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Epic and Mock-Heroic 356\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard Terry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Verse Satire 369\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrean Hammond\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 The Ode 386\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMargaret M. Koehler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 The Georgic 403\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJuan Christian Pellicer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 The Verse Epistle 417\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBill Overton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART IV Themes and Debates 429\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 The Constructions of Femininity 431\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKathryn R. King\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Whig and Tory Poetics 444\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbigail Williams\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 The Classical Inheritance 458\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Hopkins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 Augustanism and Pre-Romanticism 473\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThomas Woodman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 Recovering the Past: Shakespeare, Spenser, and British Poetic Tradition 486\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarolyn D. Williams\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 The Pleasures and Perils of the Imagination 500\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaul Baines\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37 The Sublime 515\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShaun Irlam\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38 Poetry and the City 534\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarkman Ellis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39 Cartography and the Poetry of Place 549\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRachel Crawford\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40 Rural Poetry and the Self-Taught Tradition 563\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBridget Keegan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e41 Poetry Beyond the English Borders 577\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGerard Carruthers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 590\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eChristine Gerrard\u003c\/b\u003e is Fellow and Tutor in English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Patriot Opposition to Walpole: Politics, Poetry, and National Myth, 1725–1742\u003c\/i\u003e (1994) and \u003ci\u003eAaron Hill: The Muses' Projector, 1685–1750\u003c\/i\u003e (2003). She is the co-editor, with David Fairer, of \u003ci\u003eEighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell, second edition, 2003).  This wide-ranging \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e reflects the dramatic transformation that has taken place in the study of eighteenth-century poetry over the past two decades. New essays by leading scholars in the field address an expanded poetic canon that now incorporates verse by many women poets and other formerly marginalized poetic voices. The volume engages with topical critical debates such as the production and consumption of literary texts, the constructions of femininity, sentiment and sensibility, enthusiasm, politics and aesthetics, and the growth of imperialism. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e opens with a section on contexts, considering eighteenth-century poetry’s relationships with such topics as party politics, religion, science, the visual arts, and the literary marketplace. A series of close readings of specific poems follows, ranging from familiar texts such as Pope’s \u003ci\u003eThe Rape of the Lock\u003c\/i\u003e to slightly less well-known works such as Swift’s “Stella” poems and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s \u003ci\u003eTown Eclogues\u003c\/i\u003e. Essays on forms and genres, and a series of more provocative contributions on significant themes and debates, complete the volume.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e gives readers a thorough grounding in both the background and the substance of eighteenth-century poetry, and is designed to be used alongside David Fairer and Christine Gerrard’s \u003ci\u003eEighteenth-century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell, second edition, 2004).\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988606238949,"sku":"NP9781405113168","price":268.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405113168.jpg?v=1761780945","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-companion-to-eighteenth-century-poetry-isbn-9781405113168","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}