The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century VerseRoger H. Lonsdale, Roger Lonsdale Oxford University Press, 1984 - 870 pagina's Anthologies of eighteenth-century verse have tended to confirm traditional notions of the period as one of untroubled elegance, urbanity, and decorum. Offering over 550 poems and extracts by more than 250 poets, The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse presents a truer picture of this age as a much less stable and decorous time. This extraordinarily comprehensive volume includes not only a generous selection of verse by such renowned poets as Swift, Pope, Johnson, Gray, Smart, Goldsmith, Cowper, Blake, and Burns, but also a large number of poems by lesser-known and previously ignored poets. Intermixing the familiar styles and preoccupations of "polite" taste with much less familiar verse from all social levels, it reveals the willingness of the century's poets to respond graphically, humorously, or unconventionally to all aspects of rural and urban life. Topics range from golf and hypnotism to amorous adventure and marital discord, from growing sensitivity to natural beauty to fear of the effects of the Industrial Revolution, and from the anguish of poverty and unemployment to animated political exchanges in the wake of the French Revolution. Taken together, these poems reveal that both unpredictability and familiarity played as significant a role as Augustan reason played in the world of eighteenth-century poetry. The anthology also includes a helpful introduction, notes, and a glossary. |
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... earth at first , And turn to earth again . A thousand ages in thy sight Are like an evening gone ; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun . The busy tribes of flesh and blood With all their lives and cares Are ...
... earth at first , And turn to earth again . A thousand ages in thy sight Are like an evening gone ; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun . The busy tribes of flesh and blood With all their lives and cares Are ...
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... earth's hollow surface shakes , And is the ceiling of her sleeping sons . O'er devastation we blind revels keep ; While buried towns support the dancer's heel . The moist of human frame the sun exhales : Winds scatter , through the ...
... earth's hollow surface shakes , And is the ceiling of her sleeping sons . O'er devastation we blind revels keep ; While buried towns support the dancer's heel . The moist of human frame the sun exhales : Winds scatter , through the ...
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... earth to heav'n he rolls his daring eye , From heav'n to earth . Anon ten thousand shapes , Like spectres trooping to the wizard's call , Fleet swift before him . From the womb of earth , From ocean's bed they come : th ' eternal heav ...
... earth to heav'n he rolls his daring eye , From heav'n to earth . Anon ten thousand shapes , Like spectres trooping to the wizard's call , Fleet swift before him . From the womb of earth , From ocean's bed they come : th ' eternal heav ...
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JOHN POMFRET 16671702 | 1 |
THOMAS DURFEY 16531723 | 5 |
JOHN PHILIPS 16761709 | 6 |
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