The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800

Name: The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800
Brand: OUP Oxford
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In the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the poetry published in Britain between the Restoration and the end of the eighteenth century, forty-four authorities from six countries survey the poetry of the age in all its richness and diversity--serious and satirical, public and private, by men and women, nobles and peasants, whether published in deluxe editions or sung on the streets. The contributors discuss poems in social contexts, poetic identities, poetic subjects, poetic form, poetic genres, poetic devices, and criticism. Even experts in eighteenth-century poetry will see familiar poems from new angles, and all readers will encounter poems they've never read before. The book is not a chronologically organized literary history, nor an encyclopaedia, nor a collection of thematically related essays; rather it is an attempt to provide a systematic overview of these poetic works, and to restore it to a position of centrality in modern criticism.

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Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 818
Release Date:: 2020-05-05
Publication Date:: 2020-02-24
Publisher:: OUP Oxford
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0198861346
ISBN13:: 9780198861348
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 1383 g
Height:: 17 cm
Width:: 24.4 cm
Thickness:: 4.3 cm

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