The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century VerseRoger H. Lonsdale, Roger Lonsdale Oxford University Press, 1984 - Počet stran: 870 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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Strana 238
... reason's spite , One truth is clear , ' Whatever is , is right . ' from Epistle II Know then thyself , presume not God to scan ; The proper study of mankind is man . Placed on this isthmus of a middle state , A being darkly wise , and ...
... reason's spite , One truth is clear , ' Whatever is , is right . ' from Epistle II Know then thyself , presume not God to scan ; The proper study of mankind is man . Placed on this isthmus of a middle state , A being darkly wise , and ...
Strana 344
... reason , and on reason build resolve ( That column of true majesty in man ) , Assist me : I will thank you in the grave ; The grave , your kingdom . There this frame shall fall A victim sacred to your dreary shrine . But what are ye ...
... reason , and on reason build resolve ( That column of true majesty in man ) , Assist me : I will thank you in the grave ; The grave , your kingdom . There this frame shall fall A victim sacred to your dreary shrine . But what are ye ...
Strana 808
... reason for wasting my bread ; And just such wise reasons for mending their diet Are used by those blockheads who rush into riot . ' I would not take comfort from others ' distresses , But still I would mark how God our land blesses ...
... reason for wasting my bread ; And just such wise reasons for mending their diet Are used by those blockheads who rush into riot . ' I would not take comfort from others ' distresses , But still I would mark how God our land blesses ...
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JOHN POMFRET 16671702 | 1 |
THOMAS DURFEY 16531723 | 5 |
JOHN PHILIPS 16761709 | 6 |
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