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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... PASS we the ills , which each man feels or dreads , The weight or fall'n , or hanging o'er our heads ; The bear , the lion , terrors of the plain , The sheepfold scattered , and the shepherd slain ; The frequent errors of the pathless ...
... PASS we the ills , which each man feels or dreads , The weight or fall'n , or hanging o'er our heads ; The bear , the lion , terrors of the plain , The sheepfold scattered , and the shepherd slain ; The frequent errors of the pathless ...
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... pass it ev'ry day : And then so snug , so mighty pretty , To have an house so near the city ! Take but your places ... passing by Were something to amuse the eye , But to be pent within the walls— One might as well be at St. Paul's . Our ...
... pass it ev'ry day : And then so snug , so mighty pretty , To have an house so near the city ! Take but your places ... passing by Were something to amuse the eye , But to be pent within the walls— One might as well be at St. Paul's . Our ...
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... pass , & c . Here's to the maid with a bosom of snow , Now to her that's as brown as a berry : Here's to the wife with a face full of woe , And now for the damsel that's merry . Chorus . Let the toast pass , & c . For let ' em be clumsy ...
... pass , & c . Here's to the maid with a bosom of snow , Now to her that's as brown as a berry : Here's to the wife with a face full of woe , And now for the damsel that's merry . Chorus . Let the toast pass , & c . For let ' em be clumsy ...
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JOHN POMFRET 16671702 | 1 |
THOMAS DURFEY 16531723 | 5 |
JOHN PHILIPS 16761709 | 6 |
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