The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800

In the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the poetry published in Britain between the Restoration and the end of the eighteenth century, 44 authorities from six countries survey the poetry of the age in all its richness and diversity--serious and satirical, public and private, by men and women, nobles and peasants, whether published in deluxe editions or sung on the streets. The contributors discuss poems in social contexts, poetic identities, poetic subjects, poetic form, poetic genres, poetic devices, and criticism. Even experts in eighteenth-century poetry will see familiar poems from new angles and all readers will encounter poems they've never read before. The book is not a chronologically organized literary history, nor an encyclopedia, nor a collection of thematically related essays; rather it is an attempt to provide a systematic overview of these poetic works and to restore it to a position of centrality in modern criticism.

Author: Jack Lynch
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 12/20/2016
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Pages: 818
Weight: 3.45lbs
Size: 9.80h x 6.70w x 1.90d
ISBN: 9780199600809