Author: Jonathan SwiftPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Poems, Polite convesation, etc
Author: Jonathan SwiftA Proposal for Correcting the English Tongue, Polite Conversation, Etc
Author: Jonathan SwiftPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Sound Sense of Poetry
Author: Peter RobinsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108395309
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
What real role can poetry have in the world? How are its truths created by the words and sounds chosen by the poet and by the way readers respond to them? Acclaimed poet Peter Robinson brings his knowledge of poetic art to the understanding of the reader's contribution in enabling poetry to play its part in life. Emphasising the value of individual writers' and readers' interactions, together with such key matters as meter and rhythm, voicing and form, rhyme and syntax, Robinson shows how poems engage in speech performances such as promising, justifying, excusing, and explaining - including the telling of truths. Illustrated with detailed readings of poems by, among others, Jonson, Marvell, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Dickinson, Kipling, Basil Bunting, Frank O'Hara, Tony Harrison, and Denise Riley, this book shows how important poetry is as a means to do things with words and make things happen.
I. Of the nature, use, excellence, rise and progress of poetry, etc
Author: Charles GildonPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The Seasons, Etc
Author: James ThomsonCatalogue of the Liverpool Library at the Lyceum, etc
Author: Free Public Library, Museum, and Walker Art Gallery (LIVERPOOL). Liverpool LibraryPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire
Author: Paddy BullardPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191043710
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
Eighteenth century Britain thought of itself as a polite, sentimental, enlightened place, but often its literature belied this self-image. This was an age of satire, and the century's novels, poems, plays, and prints resound with mockery and laughter, with cruelty and wit. The street-level invective of Grub Street pamphleteers is full of satire, and the same accents of raillery echo through the high scepticism of the period's philosophers and poets, many of whom were part-time pamphleteers themselves. The novel, a genre that emerged during the eighteenth century, was from the beginning shot through with satirical colours borrowed from popular romances and scandal sheets. This Handbook is a guide to the different kinds of satire written in English during the 'long' eighteenth century. It focuses on texts that appeared between the restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660 and the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789. Outlier chapters extend the story back to first decade of the seventeenth century, and forward to the second decade of the nineteenth. The scope of the volume is not confined by genre, however. So prevalent was the satirical mode in writing of the age that this book serves as a broad and characteristic survey of its literature. The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire reflects developments in historical criticism of eighteenth-century writing over the last two decades, and provides a forum in which the widening diversity of literary, intellectual, and socio-historical approaches to the period's texts can come together.
Author: Astor Library
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