This book explores how the English literary past was made. It charts how antiquarians unearthed the raw materials of the English (or more widely) British tradition; how scholars drafted narratives about the development of native literature; and how critics assigned the leading writers to canons of literary greatness.

Poetry and the Making of the English Literary Past: 1660-1781

Literature & Fiction

Terry, Richard

British & Irish

Oxford University Press

Poetry is an accessible and clearly written guide to the study of poetry. It aims to equip both students and the general reader with a body of technical information that will sharpen and deepen their engagement with individual poems. John Strachan and Richard Terry provide the reader with a lively route map through what might on first experience seem the most daunting aspects of poetry: poetic sound effects, rhythm and metre, the typographic display of poems on the page, the language of poetry and the use made by poets of techniques of comparison and association. The book's discussion of poetic terminology is allied throughout to illustrative readings that show the usefulness of the terminology in approaching particular poems. Its emphasis is always a practical one, demonstrating how poems actually work. Beginning with an historical overview of the development of English poetry from its earliest origins and finishing with an authoritative dictionary of poetical terms, Poetry is an indispensable guide to the understanding of poetry. Features * Gives concrete illustrations of the technical aspects of poetry * Contains detailed analyses of individual poems * Based on the authors' practical experience of teaching poetry * Includes a comprehensive dictionary of poetical terms * Contains a helpful system of cross-referencing and a detailed index Elements of Literature Series "It is a pleasure to be able to record that all four of these attractively produced books contribute, in very different ways, to the appreciation and enjoyment of the art of poetry ...If all the volumes in the series are as good as this one, the students for whom the series is intended will have been well served indeed ...their own exposition is consistently unpretentious and illuminating." (PQR Special Issue 2002)

Poetry (Elements of Literature)

Strachan, John

History & Criticism

Edinburgh University Press

Quickly equips you with the strategies you need to deepen your engagement with individual poems. New for this edition:* End-of-chapter exercises and follow-up research tasks* New readings of modern women's poetry* Section on How to Write Poetry with exercises* Suggestions for further reading - both books and websitesBased on their extensive teaching experience, the authors provide a lively route map through the main aspects of poetry such as sound effects, rhythm and metre, the typographic display of poems on the page and the language of poetry using practical examples throughout.

Poetry

Mock-heroic is the exemplary genre of the English Augustan era: it is one of the few genres that the Augustans invented themselves, and it stands in a symbolic relation to a culture still reverential of the grandeurs of the classical past and uneasy about its ability to emulate them. Mock-Heroic from Butler to Cowper shows the protean nature of mock-epic at this time. It recounts the rise of mock-heroic, discusses the properties of the form, and explores its relation both to classical epic and to contemporary genres such as the poetic travesty and the novel. It also tracks the relation of mock-heroic to the concept to the sublime, especially to the low sublime unwittingly perfected by Richard Blackmore. Terry goes beyond previous commentators in arguing that mock-heroic was not merely a conventional genre, but also provided a supple discourse through which writers could represent a range of personal and social issues. He identifies mock-heroic properties in the Mandevillian discourse of economics and in the rhetoric of male gallantry towards women, in which women were simultaneously elevated and put down. He also sees mock-heroic as informing the idea of divine grace in the poetry and letters of William Cowper. Mixing a historical approach with incisive close readings, Terry provides a powerful re-evaluation of the form.

Mock-Heroic from Butler to Cowper: An English Genre and Discourse (Studies in Early Modern English Literature)

Routledge

Poetry: An Introduction

Poetry: An Introduction is an accessible and clearly written introduction to the structural and methodological principles underpinning poetry and its study. It aims to equip the student, researcher, and general reader with a body of technical information that will sharpen and deepen their engagement with individual poems. Strachan and Terry provide a lively map through what might on first experience seem the most daunting aspects of poetry: poetic sound effects, rhythm and meter, the typographic display of poems on the page, the language of poetry, and the use made by poets of techniques of comparison and association. The book's discussion of poetic terminology is allied throughout to illustrative readings that show the usefulness of the terminology in approaching particular poems; its emphasis is always a practical one, demonstrating how poems actually work. Beginning with an historical overview of the development of English poetry from its earliest origins and finishing with an authoritative dictionary of poetical terms, Poetry: An Introduction is an indispensable guide to the understanding of poetry.

NYU Press

James Thomson: Essays for the Tercentenary is the first collection of essays devoted exclusively to the works of the eighteenth-century Scottish poet James Thomson. The volume is divided into two sections, the first addressing Thomson's writings themselves, and the second the reception of his works after his death and their influence on later writers. The first section contains essays analyzing the politics and aesthetics of Thomson's major poems and also a reevaluation of Thomson as a heroic dramatist. The second section capitalizes on the certainty felt by many in Thomson's own century that the poet, especially through his most successful poem The Seasons, had won for himself an indelible fame. This volume provides a definitive reappraisal of his achievement for our own times.

James Thomson: Essays for the Tercentenary (Liverpool English Texts and Studies, 35) (Volume 35)

Liverpool University Press

James Thomson: Essays for the Tercentenary is the first collection of essays devoted exclusively to the works of the eighteenth-century Scottish poet James Thomson. The volume is divided into two sections, the first addressing Thomson’s writings themselves, and the second the reception of his works after his death and their influence on later writers. The first section contains essays analyzing the politics and aesthetics of Thomson’s major poems and also a reevaluation of Thomson as a heroic dramatist. The second section capitalizes on the certainty felt by many in Thomson’s own century that the poet, especially through his most successful poem The Seasons, had won for himself an indelible fame. This volume provides a definitive reappraisal of his achievement for our own times.

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Poetry and the Making of the English Literary Past: 1660-1781

Poetry (Elements of Literature)

Poetry

Poetry

Mock-Heroic from Butler to Cowper: An English Genre and Discourse (Studies in Early Modern English Literature)

Poetry: An Introduction

Poetry: An Introduction

James Thomson: Essays for the Tercentenary (Liverpool English Texts and Studies, 35) (Volume 35)

James Thomson: Essays for the Tercentenary (Liverpool English Texts and Studies, 35) (Volume 35)