Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (Blackwell Annotated Anthologies)
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Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology reveals the rich variety of poetry produced in the period 1700 -1800. The work of traditionally prominent authors, such as Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Robert Burns and William Cowper, is presented alongside pieces by lesser-known writers, particularly women, including Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Mary Jones, Ann Yearsley, Sarah Egerton and Mary Collier. All the poems have full foot-of-page annotations and generous headnotes.For the second edition, the political and satirical content of the anthology has been strengthened, with the inclusion of poems such as Charles Churchill 's Night, Samuel Johnson 's London and Swift 's A Satirical Elegy on a Late Famous General. The revised edition also features work by two new women poets, Martha Fowke and Sarah Dixon. The editors continue to draw out interesting links between the poems, and especially between male and female poets.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0631206248
ISBN13:9780631206248
Release Date:November 1998
Publisher:Wiley-Blackwell
Length:547 Pages
Weight:2.20 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.7" x 9.6"
Customer Reviews
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The best of its kind
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
I've been teaching 18th and 19th century poetry courses for a few years and this anthology is the best I've found. The editorial choices favor the canon, as an anthology should. Many full texts of major poems are included, but so are texts of poems often overlooked but vital to a comprehensive survey. There are long excerpts of Thompson's The Seasons, for example, which very few anthologies think to include because it is a somewhat mind-numbing read and *hard* to teach to undergraduates; it is by far one of the most important poems of the early c18 decades. Because the anthology accounts for both a poem's initial reception and its teachability, it surpasses the competition.
Reshaping the Eighteenth-Century Canon
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
In Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology, David Fairer and Christine Gerrard have created an important portable library. The contents have been organized in a variety of useful ways (chronologically as well as thematically) and insightfully selected to cover a range of voices and topics. The annotations stand up to repeated readings; the scholarship displays a rare mixture of subtlety and depth of knowledge. Although it is an invaluable teaching tool for undergraduates, I keep it on my desk as an accessible and meticulously accurate reference resource. There is no finer work of its kind.
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