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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 197–212.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Alison Horgan Using current scholarship on verse miscellanies to contextualize a comparison of Robert Dodsley's Collection of Poems by Several Hands (1748) and Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765), this article considers how the verse miscellany was used to different purposes...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 178–196.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., Martin Stokes, and Clare Carlisle, alongside Gaye Mitchell, Michael Champion, and Matthew Champion. 1. Robert Dodsley to William Shenstone, 12 October 1759, in The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley, 1733–1764 , ed. James Tierney (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2004), 424. 2. Michel de...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 76–95.
Published: 01 January 2017
...:
R. Dodsley, 1748).
16. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes, By Several Hands, 6 vols. (London:
R. and J. Dodsley, 1758), 6:230–31.
17. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands, 6 vols. (London:
J. Dodsley, 1782), 6:246–47.
18. Robert Dodsley, A Collection...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (1): 21–50.
Published: 01 January 2013
... the
London bookseller Robert Dodsley to gain the support of Joseph Spence,
formerly professor of poetry at Oxford, in organizing the subscription edi-
tion of Blacklock’s Poems, issued at London in 1756.14 This provided a degree
of financial independence, but Blacklock hoped to forge a career as a lec...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 116–141.
Published: 01 January 2017
... started up with two installments in 1726, the “last” in 1728, a “third” in
1732, before exploding to twelve volumes by the fifth edition of 1751. Robert
Dodsley’s six-volume Collection of Poems by Several Hands (1748–58) was an
exception. He had earlier been a poet and playwright before Pope helped...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (1): 113–118.
Published: 01 January 2020
... explication. Reviewing John Gay s two volumes of Fables (1727, 1738), Robert Dodsley s Essay on Fable (1762), and William Godwin s Fables Ancient and Modern (1805), Benedict maps out how authors from the early, middle, and end of the eighteenth century approach the moral and moraliz- ing function of the genre...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 97–101.
Published: 01 January 2023
... and repudiates self-interest and individualism. When discussing the georgic, Genovese considers how poems by John Philips, Christopher Smart, Robert Dodsley, and John Dyer describe networks of profit and production that were aimed at producing a local interdependence. Genovese carefully demonstrates how...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 3–12.
Published: 01 April 2023
... Robert Dodsley (1703–64) than of field laborer Stephen Duck (1705–56). By the end of his life, having risen in the ranks both literally and economically, Falconer had achieved the aspiration of many a writer from a humble background: his success, both as a writer and a seaman, had allowed him...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 January 2017
... miscellany makers, including
Jacob Tonson and Robert Dodsley, are well known to literary scholars, but
as John McTague’s essay shows, the identities of many others are obscured.
Even when identities are known, an individual’s motivations can often only
be guessed at. In many cases, an editor...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 1–15.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., on the other. Two of the most widely read miscellanies of the period, Robert Dodsley's Collection of Poems by Several Hands (1748) and Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765), exemplified very different editorial visions. While Dodsley's miscellany attempted to capture the poetic present...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 93–99.
Published: 01 April 2024
... enemy to spiritualist poetics in all its forms. Yet Pope's relationship to the spiritualist tradition must be more complex than this: notwithstanding the apparent “contrast” (160) between the Essay on Man and The Pleasures of the Imagination , Pope encouraged Robert Dodsley to publish Akenside's poem...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 53–84.
Published: 01 April 2013
...,
but in 1775, it was ruled that no such notion of perpetual copyright existed,
thereby shifting control of the publication industry away from individual
booksellers and facilitating the unregulated publication and dissemination
of literary classics.5 While some booksellers, including Robert Dodsley...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 121–126.
Published: 01 January 2021
..., the elevation of the single author, and the developing institu- tion of professional criticism. He was also the inspiration for the aesthetic val- ues in Collection of Poems and many other publications. Shenstone s cross- media friendship with his bookseller Robert Dodsley reveals how intimately friendship...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 57–80.
Published: 01 September 2012
... of the best recent work on miscellany publication has appeared
in the introductions and appendixes to facsimile editions of the important
poetic miscellanies associated with the Earl of Surrey, John Dryden, and
Robert Dodsley, and on the multi-genre miscellanies of Jonathan Swift...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 100–110.
Published: 01 September 2014
...
and set Isaac Brackett, an apprentice, to watch over the warehouse. He saw
Sarah Lane Roberts take the paper, and the two of them later identified the
paper at Mrs. Wright’s shop: “a bundle of blue [paper] that is a particular
sort which Mr Hamilton had from Scotland.”
Other important titles...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 158–178.
Published: 01 January 2017
...), and Robert Dodsley’s
Collection of Poems by Several Hands (1748–58), whereas both these admirable
and valuable works inevitably reflect their own editorial intentions: Bysshe
places the accent very much on works since 1660 and on heroic poetry;
Dodsley, at midcentury, emphasizes the contemporary...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (1): 1–36.
Published: 01 January 2022
... [at Blenheim] nine or ten different prospects through avenues in the park, which generally terminate in some steeple at some miles distance” (117). 52. In his Lectures on Architecture (London: J. Brindley, 1734), Robert Morris asserted that avenues should prioritize views: “Verdant walks [should...
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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 197–230.
Published: 01 January 2017
... writing for money but then gave
up when their finances improved (like Robert Dodsley or Matthew Con-
canen). Prior’s three most famous “idle tales” are there in every edition of
The Muse in Good Humour: “Hans Carvel’s Ring,” “Paulo Purganti and his
Wife,” and “The Ladle.” The first two focus...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (2): 36–59.
Published: 01 April 2012
... in Tristram Shandy was not a secret, as the
communication between Sterne and his London publisher Robert Dodsley reveals.
See, for example, Lewis P. Curtis, “The First Printer of Tristram Shandy,” PMLA 47
(1932): 777 – 89.
4. From the title page to the fourth edition of Pamela: or, Virtue...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 38–55.
Published: 01 April 2018
... venerate Johnson and his
writings throughout his life.
Johnson replied to Burney’s letter in April, a week before the Dic-
tionary was published, telling him that he could obtain it from the book-
seller Robert Dodsley but without mentioning the price shillings).
More important than...
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