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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... o'er the secret soul , in gentle gales , A philosophic melancholy breathes , And bears the swelling thought aloft to heaven . Then forming fancy rouses to conceive What never mingled with the vulgar's dream : Then wake the tender pang ...
... o'er the secret soul , in gentle gales , A philosophic melancholy breathes , And bears the swelling thought aloft to heaven . Then forming fancy rouses to conceive What never mingled with the vulgar's dream : Then wake the tender pang ...
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... o'er the plain , and o'er the mountain's ridge , Away she flies ; nor ships with wind and tide , And all their canvas wings , scud half so fast . Once more , ye jovial train , your courage try , And each clean courser's speed . We scour ...
... o'er the plain , and o'er the mountain's ridge , Away she flies ; nor ships with wind and tide , And all their canvas wings , scud half so fast . Once more , ye jovial train , your courage try , And each clean courser's speed . We scour ...
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... o'er thy darling's grave ; O queen of numbers , once again Animate some chosen swain , Who , filled with unexhausted fire , May boldly smite the sounding lyre , Who with some new , unequalled song , May rise above the rhyming throng , O'er ...
... o'er thy darling's grave ; O queen of numbers , once again Animate some chosen swain , Who , filled with unexhausted fire , May boldly smite the sounding lyre , Who with some new , unequalled song , May rise above the rhyming throng , O'er ...
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JOHN POMFRET 16671702 | 1 |
THOMAS DURFEY 16531723 | 5 |
JOHN PHILIPS 16761709 | 6 |
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