Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Poetry 1660-1780 (Routledge Revivals) Routledge Revivals Series
Auteur : Rothstein Eric
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Poetry 1660-1780, originally published in 1981, considers poetry written between 1660 and 1780, a period which, although largely recovered from its nineteenth-century reputation, still attracts widely varying critical responses. Abandoning the old labels such as ?neoclassicism?, ?romanticism? and ?sensibility?, the author focuses on descriptions of genres and their formal elements and traces the broader patterns of literary and historical change running through the period.
Eric Rothstein describes different poetic modes- panegyric, satire, pastoral and topographical poetry, the epistle, and the ode- to suggest their aesthetical possibilities as well as their process of change. He also considers style and the uses of the past, topics which have often caused particular problems for the students of the period. What becomes clear is the extraordinary originality, flexibility and power with which Restoration and eighteenth-century poets handles the stylistic assumptions and the body of poems they inherited and employed in their own works.
A Note on Texts; Introduction; 1: Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Poetry 1660-1720 2. Style 3. The Use of the Past 4. Later Eighteenth-Century Poetry 1720-80 5. Conclusion; Appendix 1 Chronology; Appendix 2 Poets Laureate; Index
Date de parution : 07-2014
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 03-2016
15.6x23.4 cm
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Mots-clés :
Young Man; ideal; William III; presence; Ideal Presence; poets; Eighteenth Century Poets; coopers; Eighteenth Century Poetry; hill; Book III; positional; Gray’s Elegy; style; Denham's Cooper's Hill; gray's; Earlier Eighteenth Century Poets; elegy; Eighteenth Century Presses; readers; Cooper’s Hill; Jubilate Agno; Horatian Poems; Horatian Imitations; Positional Style; Topographical Poetry; Restoration Poetry; Anne Killigrew; King William III; Eighteenth Century Poems; Comprehensive Satire; Horace’s Odes; Topographical Poem; Miltonic Blank Verse; Windsor Forest