The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800

In the most comprehensive, up-to-date account of the poetry published in Britain between the Restoration and the end of the eighteenth century, a team of leading experts surveys the poetry of the age in all its richness and diversity.

They provide a systematic overview, and restore these poetic works to a position of centrality in modern criticism.

Introduction; Part I: Poems in Social Settings; 1 William Donaldson: Poems on the Streets; 2 Cynthia Wall: Poems on the Stage; 3 James McLaverty: Poems in Print; 4 Jennifer Batt: Poems in Magazines; 5 Tom Keymer: Poems in the Novel; 6 Andrea Immel and Lissa Paul: Poems in the Nursery; 7 Richard Terry: Poems in the Lecture Hall; Part II: Poetic Identities; 8 Moyra Haslett: The Poet as Clubman; 9 Brean Hammond: The Poet as Professional; 10 Bridget Keegan: The Poet as Laborer; 11 Lorna Clymer: The Poet as Teacher; 12 Rivka Swenson: The Poet as Man of Feeling; 13 Marshall Brown: The Poet as Genius; 14 Nick Groom: The Poet as Fraud; 15 Isobel Grundy: The Poet as Poetess; Part III: Poetic Subjects; 16 David F.

Venturo: Poems on Poetry; 17 Christine Gerrard: Poems on Politics; 18 Leith Davis: Poems on Nation and Empire; 19 Pat Rogers: Poems on Science and Philosophy; 20 Donna Landry: Poems on Place; 21 Catherine Ingrassia: Poems on the Sexes; Part IV: Poetic Form; 22 J.

Paul Hunter: Couplets; 23 Conrad Brunstrom: Blank Verse; 24 Rodney Stenning Edgecombe: Stanzas; 25 Richard Bradford: Free Verse and Prose Poetry; Part V: Poetic Genres; 26 David Hill Radcliffe: Pastoral; 27 David Fairer: Georgic; 28 Anna Foy: Epic; 29 Ashley Marshall: Satire; 30 Sandro Jung: Ode; 31 James D.

Garrison: Elegy; 32 Ruth Perry: Ballad; 33 Emma Mason: Devotional Poetry; 34 Jennifer Keith: Lyric; 35 Tanya Caldwell: Translation; Part VI: Poetic Devices; 36 Timothy Erwin: Imagery; 37 Blanford Parker: Metaphor; 38 Marcus Walsh: Allusion; 39 Jack Lynch: Irony; Part VII: Criticism; 40 Adam Rounce: Scholarship; 41 Philip Smallwood: Histories; 42 Antonia Forster: Reviews; 43 Daniel J.

Ennis: Honors