Download e-book for iPad: The Cambridge Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Poetry by John Sitter

By John Sitter

ISBN-10: 0521612780

ISBN-13: 9780521612784

ISBN-10: 0521848245

ISBN-13: 9780521848244

For readers daunted through the formal buildings and rhetorical sophistication of eighteenth-century English poetry, this creation by means of John Sitter brings the recommendations and the key poets of the interval 1700-1785 triumphantly to lifestyles. Sitter starts by way of providing a advisor to poetic kinds starting from heroic couplets to clean verse, then demonstrates how skilfully female and male poets of the interval used them as cars for imaginitive adventure, emotions and ideas. He then presents specified analyses of person works by means of poets from Finch, speedy and Pope, to grey, Cowper and Barbauld. An approachable advent to English poetry and significant poets of the eighteenth century, this publication presents a grounding in poetic research worthwhile to scholars and normal readers of literature.

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