Author: Clarissa RinakerPublisher:
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Category : Antiquarians
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Thomas Warton
Author: Clarissa RinakerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarians
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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Joseph and Thomas Warton
Author: John A. VancePublisher: Macmillan Reference USA
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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The Achievement of George Steevens
Author: Arthur SherboPublisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
George Steevens was one of the most learned of the eighteenth-century editors of Shakespeare. Indeed, his primary concern throughout his life, when he was not perpetrating one of his learned hoaxes, was the explication of the text of Shakespeare's plays and poems. A well-to-do bachelor, friend of Samuel Johnson and a few other notables, and the enemy of somewhat more members of the intellectual life of London, he had the leisure and the energy to pursue his inclinations. Professor Sherbo traces Steevens' achievement as editor of Shakespeare and collaborator in his friend Isaac Reed's Biographea Dramatica (1782) and in his friend John Nichols' Genuine Works of William Hogarth. Without the labors of Steevens eighteenth-century scholarship would not have made the advances that it did.
Thomas Chatterton and Romantic Culture
Author: N. GroomPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230390226
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Thomas Chatterton was a poet, forger, and adolescent suicide, and the debate over his work was a pivotal episode in the history of eighteenth-century literature. It ultimately established Chatterton as the inspiration for Romantic poets like Blake, Coleridge, and Keats. This book is a major collection of diverse new essays by scholars, critics, and writers like Peter Ackroyd and Richard Holmes. They show the mercurial Chatterton in exciting new contexts, and restore him as a seminal figure in English Literature.
The Life and Times of O. Goldsmith. Second Edition
Author: John ForsterBooks and articles published by the corps of instruction, University of Illinois
Author: University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Thomas Chatterton and Neglected Genius, 1760-1830
Author: Daniel CookPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137332492
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Long before Wordsworth etherealized him as 'the marvellous Boy / The sleepless Soul that perished in its pride', Thomas Chatterton was touted as the 'second Shakespeare' by eighteenth-century Shakespeareans, ranked among the leading British poets by prominent literary critics, and likened to the fashionable modern prose stylists Macpherson, Sterne, and Smollett. His pseudo-medieval Rowley poems, in particular, engendered a renewed fascination with ancient English literature. With Chatterton as its case study, this book offers new insights into the formation and development of literary scholarship in the period, from the periodical press to the public lecture, from the review to the anthology, from textual to biographical criticism. Cook demonstrates that, while major scholars found Chatterton to be a pertinent subject for multiple literary debates in the eighteenth century, by the end of the Romantic period he had become, and still remains, an unsettling model of hubristic genius.
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