The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800
The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800

Author: George Watson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1971-07-02

Total Pages: 1698

ISBN-13: 9780521079341

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More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 2 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.

Poetry and the Creation of a Whig Literary Culture 1681-1714
Poetry and the Creation of a Whig Literary Culture 1681-1714

Author: Abigail Williams

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2005-03-24

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0191531219

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Poetry and the Creation of a Whig Literary Culture offers a new perspective on early eighteenth century poetry and literary culture, arguing that long-neglected Whig poets such as Joseph Addison, John Dennis, Thomas Tickell, and Richard Blackmore were more popular and successful in their own time than they have been since. These and other Whig writers produced elevated poetry celebrating the political and military achievements of William III's Britain, and were committed to an ambitious project to create a distinctively Whiggish English literary culture after the Revolution of 1688. Far from being the penniless hacks and dunces satirized by John Dryden and the Scriblerians, they were supported by the patronage of the wealthy Whig aristocracy, and their works promoted as a new English literature to rival that of classical Greece and Rome. Poetry and the Creation of a Whig Literary Culture maps for the first time the evolution of an alternative early eighteenth-century poetic tradition which is central to our understanding of the literary history of the period.

Second-hand Coat
Second-hand Coat

Author: Ruth Stone

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13:

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Second-hand coat -- Where I came from -- At the center -- Poetry -- How to catch Aunt Harriette -- Scars -- What can you do? -- Drought in the lower fields -- Moving right along -- Pokeberries -- Mother's picture -- Liebeslied -- Curtains -- Something -- From the arboretum -- Winter -- Shadows -- The miracle -- You may ask -- Names -- Why kid yourself -- Message from your toes -- Sunday -- Pine cones -- Father's day -- Orange poem praising brown -- The room -- American milk -- How Aunt Maud took to being a woman -- Comments of the mild -- An academic life -- Procedure -- When the furnace toes on in a California tract house -- Icons from Indianapolis -- Snow trivia -- The latest hotel guest walks over particles that revolve in seven other dimentsions controlling latticed space -- Years later -- Surviving in Earlysville with a broken window -- Turning -- Happiness -- Turn your eyes away -- Body among trees -- Some things you'll need to know before you join the union -- Women laughing -- Translations -- A last cloud -- Ceam -- Codicle -- Loss -- From the other side -- The tree -- Habit -- Illinois -- Fading -- U of my -- Drams of wild birds -- Vegetables I -- Vegetables II -- Periphery -- Separate -- Overlapping Edges -- Communion -- And yet -- Being a woman -- Cocks and mares -- Shotgun wedding -- Family -- Mine -- The infant -- Laguna beach -- Out of Lost Angeles -- The nost -- Bazook -- Something deeper -- The song of Absinthe granny -- Dream of light in the shade -- The talking fish -- Memory of knowledge and death at the mother of scholars -- Being human -- Tenacity -- The excuse -- Salt -- Denouement -- Between th elines -- The plan -- Poles -- Emily -- Green apples -- Haying -- Habitat -- Eclat -- The principle of mirrors -- behind the facade -- I have three daughters -- A mother looks at her child -- Advice -- End of summer -- Seat belt fastened? -- Disappeared child -- The sotry of the churn -- It -- Metamorphosis -- Topography -- The magnet -- In an iridescent time -- The season -- The burned bridge -- Orchard -- The splinter -- The mold -- An old song -- Love's relative -- Vernal Equinox.

Making the Modern Reader
Making the Modern Reader

Author: Barbara M. Benedict

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2018-12-04

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0691193975

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Inquiring into the formation of a literary canon during the Restoration and the eighteenth century, Barbara Benedict poses the question, "Do anthologies reflect or shape contemporary literary taste?" She finds that there was a cultural dialectic at work: miscellanies and anthologies transmitted particular tastes while in turn being influenced by the larger culture they helped to create. Benedict reveals how anthologies of the time often created a consensus of literary and aesthetic values by providing a bridge between the tastes of authors, editors, printers, booksellers, and readers. Making the Modern Reader, the first full treatment of the early modern anthology, is in part a history of the London printing trade as well as of the professionalization of criticism. Benedict thoroughly documents the historical redefinition of the reader: once a member of a communal literary culture, the reader became private and introspective, morally and culturally shaped by choices in reading. She argues that eighteenth-century collections promised the reader that culture could be acquired through the absorption of literary values. This process of cultural education appealed to a middle class seeking to become discriminating consumers of art. By addressing this neglected genre, Benedict contributes a new perspective on the tension between popular and high culture, between the common reader and the elite. This book will interest scholars working in cultural studies and those studying noncanonical texts as well as eighteenth-century literature in general. Originally published in 1996. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.