The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century VerseRoger H. Lonsdale, Roger Lonsdale Oxford University Press, 1984 - 870 стор. Anthologies of eighteenth-century verse have tended to confirm traditional notions of the period as one of untroubled elegance, urbanity, and decorum. Offering over 550 poems and extracts by more than 250 poets, The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse presents a truer picture of this age as a much less stable and decorous time. This extraordinarily comprehensive volume includes not only a generous selection of verse by such renowned poets as Swift, Pope, Johnson, Gray, Smart, Goldsmith, Cowper, Blake, and Burns, but also a large number of poems by lesser-known and previously ignored poets. Intermixing the familiar styles and preoccupations of "polite" taste with much less familiar verse from all social levels, it reveals the willingness of the century's poets to respond graphically, humorously, or unconventionally to all aspects of rural and urban life. Topics range from golf and hypnotism to amorous adventure and marital discord, from growing sensitivity to natural beauty to fear of the effects of the Industrial Revolution, and from the anguish of poverty and unemployment to animated political exchanges in the wake of the French Revolution. Taken together, these poems reveal that both unpredictability and familiarity played as significant a role as Augustan reason played in the world of eighteenth-century poetry. The anthology also includes a helpful introduction, notes, and a glossary. |
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... bright beams of wit and sense , Speed thy white doves , and draw me hence . So may the carved , fair , speaking stone , Persuasive half , and half moss - grown , So may the column's graceful height , O'er woods and temples gleaming bright ...
... bright beams of wit and sense , Speed thy white doves , and draw me hence . So may the carved , fair , speaking stone , Persuasive half , and half moss - grown , So may the column's graceful height , O'er woods and temples gleaming bright ...
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... bright track , that fires the western skies , They melt , they vanish from my eyes . But oh ! what solemn scenes on Snowdon's height Descending slow their glitt'ring skirts unroll ? Visions of glory , spare my aching sight , Ye unborn ...
... bright track , that fires the western skies , They melt , they vanish from my eyes . But oh ! what solemn scenes on Snowdon's height Descending slow their glitt'ring skirts unroll ? Visions of glory , spare my aching sight , Ye unborn ...
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... bright 464 430 371 266 63 182 Time was , a wealthy Englishman would join Timely blossom , infant fair , Tired Nature's sweet restorer , balmy Sleep ! 455 324 60 231 Tired with books and rolling on the bed , ' Tis an act of the priest to ...
... bright 464 430 371 266 63 182 Time was , a wealthy Englishman would join Timely blossom , infant fair , Tired Nature's sweet restorer , balmy Sleep ! 455 324 60 231 Tired with books and rolling on the bed , ' Tis an act of the priest to ...
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JOHN POMFRET 16671702 | 1 |
THOMAS DURFEY 16531723 | 5 |
JOHN PHILIPS 16761709 | 6 |
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