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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... Thou plague peculiar to mankind ? O may my verse excel in spite The wiliest , wittiest imps of night ! Then lend me ... Thou source of discord , pain and care , Thou sure forerunner of despair , Thou scorpion with a double face , Thou ...
... Thou plague peculiar to mankind ? O may my verse excel in spite The wiliest , wittiest imps of night ! Then lend me ... Thou source of discord , pain and care , Thou sure forerunner of despair , Thou scorpion with a double face , Thou ...
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... Thou art full of truth and grace . Plenteous grace with thee is found , Grace to cover all my sin : Let the healing streams abound , Make and keep me pure within . Thou of life the fountain art : Freely let me take of thee , Spring thou ...
... Thou art full of truth and grace . Plenteous grace with thee is found , Grace to cover all my sin : Let the healing streams abound , Make and keep me pure within . Thou of life the fountain art : Freely let me take of thee , Spring thou ...
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... thou safe from the war ? Where are thy friends , my love ? I heard of thy death on the hill ; I heard and mourned thee , Shilric ! ' ' Yes , my fair , I return ; but I alone of my race . Thou shalt see them no more : their graves I ...
... thou safe from the war ? Where are thy friends , my love ? I heard of thy death on the hill ; I heard and mourned thee , Shilric ! ' ' Yes , my fair , I return ; but I alone of my race . Thou shalt see them no more : their graves I ...
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JOHN POMFRET 16671702 | 1 |
THOMAS DURFEY 16531723 | 5 |
JOHN PHILIPS 16761709 | 6 |
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