Spacks, Patricia Ann Meyer.

Reading eighteenth-century poetry [[Book] /] Reading 18th-century poetry. Patricia Meyer Spacks. - Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. - 289 p. ; 24 cm. - Reading poetry .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-278) and index.

How to live : the moral and the social -- Matters of feeling : poetry of emotion -- The power of detail : description in verse -- High language and low : the diction of poetry -- Alexander Pope and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu -- How to live : the place of work -- Matters of feeling : forms of the personal -- Structures of energy, structures of leisure : ode and blank verse -- Old poetry, old language : imitation and fraud -- Outliers : Mary Leapor and Christopher Smart -- How to live : poetry and politics -- Matters of feeling : emotion celebrated -- Narrative and reflection -- Poetic languages : diction old and new -- Mary Robinson and William Cowper.

9781405153614 (hc : alk. paper) 9781405153621 (pbk. : alk. paper)


English poetry--History and criticism.--18th century.
English poetry--Appreciation.

821.509

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