Reading eighteenth-century poetry /
Spacks, Patricia Meyer.
Reading eighteenth-century poetry / Reading 18th-century poetry Patricia Meyer Spacks. - Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. - viii, 289 p. ; - 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
English poetry
821.009 SPA-R
Reading eighteenth-century poetry / Reading 18th-century poetry Patricia Meyer Spacks. - Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. - viii, 289 p. ; - 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
English poetry
821.009 SPA-R