The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century VerseRoger H. Lonsdale, Roger Lonsdale Oxford University Press, 1984 - Всего страниц: 870 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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... thought it his peculiar whim , Nor took it ill as come from him . He followed David's lesson just , In princes never put thy trust . And , would you make him truly sour , Provoke him with a slave in power . The Irish Senate if you named ...
... thought it his peculiar whim , Nor took it ill as come from him . He followed David's lesson just , In princes never put thy trust . And , would you make him truly sour , Provoke him with a slave in power . The Irish Senate if you named ...
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... thought From wave to wave of fancied misery At random drove , her helm of reason lost . Though now restored , ' tis only change of pain , ( A bitter change ! ) severer for severe : The day too short for my distress ; and night , Ev'n in ...
... thought From wave to wave of fancied misery At random drove , her helm of reason lost . Though now restored , ' tis only change of pain , ( A bitter change ! ) severer for severe : The day too short for my distress ; and night , Ev'n in ...
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... thought it meet to lie . Such pious tenets formed his saving creed , And other faith was heresy indeed . A perfect proselyte his wife - she knew How much the farthing as the pound was due . Corn , butter , bacon , eggs , each coming day ...
... thought it meet to lie . Such pious tenets formed his saving creed , And other faith was heresy indeed . A perfect proselyte his wife - she knew How much the farthing as the pound was due . Corn , butter , bacon , eggs , each coming day ...
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