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The Daring Muse is a challenging account of the richness and complexity of Augustan poetry.

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This book explores the way in which Milton's poems served as a rich and fruitful resource for the English poets of the eighteenth century.

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'Sublime' and 'Milton' - no other pairing is used more frequently in early discussions of the author of Paradise Lost: Addison finds Milton's genius ... More

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Designs on Truth provides a reinterpretation of Augustan poetry, not as works to be defended before the court of Matthew Arnold and the Romantic ... More

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An engaging collection of new essays covering Romantic poetry, its historical and literary contexts, its forms, and its enduring appeal.

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Poetry and the Creation of Whig Literary Culture offers a new perspective on early eighteenth century poetry and literary culture, arguing that long ... More

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This book is a history of the influence of Dante on English poetry.

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A 1990 study of the remarkable by neglected laboring-class women poets of the eighteenth century.

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John Sitter makes a challenging claim for the importance of wit in the writings of Dryden, Rochester, Prior, Berkeley, Gay, Pope and Swift.

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Brown's position is that Gay, Young, Johnson, Churchill, Goldsmith, Cowper, and Crabbe contributed in a unique way to the development of the heroic ... More

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The tragic death of Walpole's cat and the Thomas Gray poem written in her honor: the true story of what happened, and a look at the lively social and ... More

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A challenging and persuasive interpretation of poems too often seen as part of a coherent and accepted literary tradition.

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Until now, most teaching has focused on the novel as the most useful way of raising issues of gender, ethnicity, theory, nationality, politics and ... More

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The Romantic poets believed that the selection and arrangement of poems into collections were important steps in the poetic process. From the works ... More

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The Imitation was a popular verse form in the first half of the eighteenth century. A work of classical poetry would be adapted to contemporary ... More

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The author analyzes the transformations of the love deities in later Middle English Chaucerian poetry, academic Latin discourses on classical myth, ... More

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