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100			_aSitter, John
245			_aThe Cambridge Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Poetry / _cJohn Sitter
260			_aUnited Kingdom : _bCambridge University Press, _c©2011
300			_axii, 245p.; 23cm.
440			_aCambridge Introductions to Literature
505			_aIntroduction Part I. Voice: 1. Voice in eighteenth-century poetry 2. The Heroic couplet continuum 3. Vocal engagement: reading Pope's An Essay on Criticism 4. Talking in tetrameter 5. Blank verse and stanzaic poetry Part II. Poetic Consciousness: 6. Satiric poetry 7. Pope as metapoet 8. Metapoetry beyond Pope Part III. Vision: 9. Reading visions 10. Personification 11. Prophecy and prospects of society 12. Ecological prospects and natural knowledge A concluding note: then and now Suggested reading Index.
520			_aFor readers daunted by the formal structures and rhetorical sophistication of eighteenth-century English poetry, this introduction by John Sitter brings the techniques and the major poets of the period 1700–1785 triumphantly to life. Sitter begins by offering a guide to poetic forms ranging from heroic couplets to blank verse, then demonstrates how skilfully male and female poets of the period used them as vehicles for imaginative experience, feelings and ideas. He then provides detailed analyses of individual works by poets from Finch, Swift and Pope, to Gray, Cowper and Barbauld. An approachable introduction to English poetry and major poets of the eighteenth century, this book provides a grounding in poetic analysis useful to students and general readers of literature.
650			_aEnglish poetry _x18th century _xFiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
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