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... urgent questions of this kind about poetry of the long eighteenth century. With Reading Time in the Long Poem , Tess Somervell asks us to explore ways of moving through well-known long works by John Milton, James Thomson, and William Wordsworth. Putting them into fresh conversation with one another...

...David S. Shields Corey Andrews. Literary Nationalism in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Club Poetry . Studies in British Literature, no. 82 (Lewiston: Edward Mellen Press, 2004). Pp. 378. $119.95. ISBN 0-7734-6463-8 Duke University Press 2007 Review...

...Sibel Zandi-Sayek Shirine Hamadeh. The City's Pleasures: Istanbul in the Eighteenth Century (Seattle: Univ. of Washington, 2008). Pp. xiv + 350. 105 ills. $60 Duke University Press 2009 Review Essay Poetry, Pleasure, and Building...

... (1979) similarly challenges “the glass coffin of silence, stillness, secondariness.” 15 By tracing the ordering force of superior secondariness in eighteenth-century poetry, my research returns to Enlightenment literary form in order to renew and historicize the revisionary genealogical brand...

... by editors in the middle decades of the eighteenth century. It was, variously, a space in which to preserve poetry, to test readers’ appetites for the unfamiliar, and to establish or challenge poetic taste. Most of all, however, the verse miscellany functioned as a virtual space of the Enlightenment...

...Michael Edson R e v i e w E s s a y Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 44, Number 1, January 2020 doi 10.1215/00982601-7993677 Copyright 2020 by Duke University Press 1 0 4 Planned Obsolescence Michael Edson University of Wyoming Jack Lynch, ed. The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660 1800 (New...

... supplied for eighteenth-century readers. Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 poetry miscellanies Milton elocution reading aloud quotation pedagogy • Reading Milton in Eighteenth-Century Poetic Miscellanies...

...; / The proper study of Mankind is Man.” 1 This notion of Enlightenment poetry has been in circulation long enough that the college-aged narrator of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar could remark that she “hated the very idea of the eighteenth century, with all those smug men writing tight little couplets...

... of understanding the rise of the novel. 3 As hands-on texts, technical works capture something that imaginative works, like novels, poetry, sermons, and plays, do not. The eighteenth century, especially, was awash in diverse forms of maritime writing, including dictionaries, calendars, logbooks, ciphering books...

...Laura Tallon This essay seeks to expand our understanding of ekphrasis and its dynamics by analyzing the poetry of Anne Finch. In the standard model constructed by critics from the eighteenth century to the present, ekphrasis represents a contest between poetry and visual art that applies...

... corpora of texts, Roger Lonsdale argued in his groundbre anding of “the landscape of eighteenth-century poetry” was limited because we hadn’t read enough of what was published in the period: It will seem outrageous to suggest that we still know very little about the subject. Yet given...

... of representing motion; at the level of experience, motion determined how the act of reading made a representation real to the mind. Dennis’s essays can also teach us about early eighteenth-century proto-disciplinary orga- nization. In his Grounds of Criticism in Poetry (1704), he argues that liter- ary...

... the worst stereotypes of eighteenth- century poetry and scholar- ship, namely didacticism bordering on pedantry, it most often brings to mind Pope s mockery of the practice in The Dunciad. Edson approaches these potential prejudices head- on to counter the assumption that notes originated with arrogant...

... that took on their modern forms in the early eighteenth century, the novel and the encyclopedia. Books called miscellanies typically contain a heterogeneous selection of short or not quite book-­length works. The best-­ known examples are anthologies of poetry, such as the miscellanies that John...

...Aaron Santesso Critics have long pointed to the connections between eighteenth-century landscape gardens and poetry. This essay examines the influence of prose narrative on garden design, arguing that gardens increasingly reflect narrative techniques as the eighteenth century progresses. The essay...

..., both in the later eighteenth century and the present day. It focuses specifically on two poets who formulated the private sublime: Freneau in the 1781 British Prison-Ship and Ann Eliza Bleecker in the poems that she wrote after her daughter’s death in 1777. While Freneau’s poetry emphasizes terror...

...- dure. Although eighteenth-­century writers, always fearful of libel, seldom mentioned public figures, such as Sloane, by name, they demonstrated, in genres ranging from poetry to guidebooks, that Sloane epitomized the wonders and worries of collecting as his reputation shifted from...

... to examine ever larger corpora of texts, Roger Lonsdale argued in his groundbreaking New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse (1984) that our understanding of “the landscape of eighteenth-century poetry” was limited because we hadn’t read enough of what was published in the period: This passage...

... the relationship between the practical, educational, and aspirational uses of poetry, and the formation of a literary canon. Two contradictory things happen in the history of eighteenth-century reading. One is the birth of a generation of silent readers. As numerous his- torians of reading have argued...

... is Fingal's realm and “desart” is Macpherson's preferred spelling of an arid place from Fingal onward. “Morven” is variously modified in the poetry by “windy,” “woody,” “echoing,” and “streamy,” but not by “desart.” Henry Mackenzie, arbiter of eighteenth-century literary sensibility, chair...