Key Features:
'a major anthology: one of the best that Oxford has ever produced.' (James Fenton)
- Challenges stereotypical views of eighteenth-century verse by presenting many lesser known poets - male and female - from all levels of society
- 'a bold, subtle, endlessly fascinating anthology' (Tom Paulin)
- Features the work of such great writers as Swift, Burns, and Blake, as well as that of forgotten writers
Description:
No previous anthology has succeeded in illustrating so thoroughly the kinds of verse actually written in the eighteenth century. The familiar tradition is fully represented by selections from such poets as Pope, Swift, Gray, Smart, Goldsmith, Cowper, Burns, and Blake.
In addition, the anthology includes verse by many forgotten writers, both men and women, from all levels of society. Although they have never figured in conventional literary history, they wrote humorous, idiosyncratic, and graphic verse about their personal experience and the world around them, in a way that should challenge received ideas about the periods restraints and inhibitions.
PREVIOUS EDITION: 0192820540
'a major anthology: one of the best that Oxford has ever produced.' (James Fenton)
- Challenges stereotypical views of eighteenth-century verse by presenting many lesser known poets - male and female - from all levels of society
- 'a bold, subtle, endlessly fascinating anthology' (Tom Paulin)
- Features the work of such great writers as Swift, Burns, and Blake, as well as that of forgotten writers
Description:
No previous anthology has succeeded in illustrating so thoroughly the kinds of verse actually written in the eighteenth century. The familiar tradition is fully represented by selections from such poets as Pope, Swift, Gray, Smart, Goldsmith, Cowper, Burns, and Blake.
In addition, the anthology includes verse by many forgotten writers, both men and women, from all levels of society. Although they have never figured in conventional literary history, they wrote humorous, idiosyncratic, and graphic verse about their personal experience and the world around them, in a way that should challenge received ideas about the periods restraints and inhibitions.
PREVIOUS EDITION: 0192820540