Reading eighteenth-century poetry - Spacks, Patricia Meyer (Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-278) and index.
Keywords: English poetry; English poetry