... by citing Duncan's address to the mutineers. [email protected] Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 sailors nautical poetry maritime culture navy William Falconer The Shipwreck William Jones's survey of William Falconer's literary legacy calls attention to his...

... practice at sea. Since maritime practice involved diverse processes in an environment that could not be controlled, maritime and navigation books thereby contained diverse styles and forms, from poetry, to criticism, to illustrations, to definitions, in an effort to reflect the diversity, and experience...

.... 3. This letter, in which Jane Falconer writes anxiously in January 1771 for news of her husband, is in the British Museum, Add. MS 29, 132ff, 404. [email protected] Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 maritime poetry shipwreck lexicography nautical language georgic...

... focus from Falconer's poetry to his Universal Dictionary of the Marine , which she situates in a longer history of navigational pilot books and maritime dictionaries, stretching from John Smith's Sea Grammar (1627) and John Seller's English Pilot (1671) to Thomas Blanckeley's Naval Expositor...

... cultural concerns that have informed critics’ readings of The Shipwreck for over 200 years, criticism has predominantly regarded the poem as a georgic recording of an authentic experience of maritime labor, travel, and imperialism. Yet such an understanding of the poem, and especially of the first...

... on a visit to the Caird Library, National Maritime Museum Greenwich (NMM) on 12 October 2021. Figures 1 – 5 in this essay are from the logbook and reproduced with the permission of the NMM. My thanks are due to the NMM archivists for this opportunity to examine the manuscript logbook, and to Lucy Bate...

...) [email protected] Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 William Falconer immersive reading reading time laboring-class poetry length In a journal entry for July 1788, Frances Burney offers a glimpse into the reception of William Falconer's maritime georgic, The Shipwreck , first...

... in English neoclassical poetry. After he makes these claims, the passages that follow are not so much an account of sailors and their difficult lives as an extended meditation on history, on the rise and fall of nation-states, on the contrast between past and present, and, perhaps, on implications or lessons...

..., that reduction of the systemic problems of maritime empire to individual moral failure leaves a great deal unsaid. The same is true regarding the brief mention of slavery, a reference confined to the silver miners of Spanish Peru, despite Britain's battening off the slave trade at the very moment of the poem's...

.... Domingo . . . With illustrations . Bath: Printed for the Author. Malone, Robert L. The Sailor's Dream and Other Poems . Glasgow: David Robertson. Robert Peter. The Solace of Leisure Hours; or, Essays of Poetry. By A Sailor . London: R. A. Kirkaldy. An Old Sailor. The Life Boat's...

... Andrews, Corey. Literary Nationalism in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Club Poetry. Studies in British Literature, vol. 82 (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen, 2004). Pp. 382. $119.95. ISBN 0-7734-6463-8 Applebaum, Robert, and John Wood Sweet. Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Making...

...- Century Poetry (Bethlehem: Lehigh Univ., 2017). Pp. xxxv + 241. $95 At the start of his outstanding collection of essays, volume editor Michael Edson acknowledges the potential skepticism and wariness that one might bring to a book devoted to the topic of annotation. Often regarded as rep- resenting...

.... There are suggestions in Falconer's shorter poetry that he may have been disappointed by the new, supposedly more honorable, career on which he had embarked. His early poem, “Description of a Ninety Gun Ship” (1759), is a hymn to the “vast stupendous” warships in the Royal Navy, and the “Eight hundred youths of heart...

...Margarette Lincoln Duke University Press 2007 Mutinous Behavior on Voyages to the South Seas and Its Impact on Eighteenth-Century Civil Society Margarette Lincoln National Maritime...

... in English Plebian Poetry, 1730–1830 (Newark & London: Univ. of Delaware, 2001). Pp. 364. $55. ISBN 0-87413-747-0 Cogliano, Francis D. American Maritime Prisoners in the Revolutionary War: the Cap- tivity of William Russell (Annapolis, Naval Institute, 2001). Pp. 218...

... toward an Enlightenment mindset before they even saw the southern hemisphere. A different story about Enlightenment and the Pacific emerges for less-obviously philosophical voyagers. For these travelers—most of them destined for a maritime but not necessarily an intellectual life—the Pacific could prove...

.... 162. $50 Baggerman, Arianne, and Rudolf Dekker. Child of the Enlightenment: Revolutionary Europe Reflected in a Boyhood Diary, trans. from Dutch by Diane Webb (Leiden: Brill, 2009). Pp. xii + 553. 164 ills. $158 Baker, Samuel. Written on the Water: British Romanticism and the Maritime...

...John Richardson This essay examines how poetry of the American Revolution contributed to the broader tradition of Anglophone war poetry through the “private sublime,” which would start as a minor and relatively unknown development, but eventually become one of the primary modes of depicting war...

... in the Channel Fleet, 1 7 9 9   –   1 8 0 0 (Greenwich: The National Maritime Museum, 2008). Pp. 144. 75 color ills. £20. ISBN 978-0-948-06579-8 Beghin, Tom, and Sander M. Goldberg, eds. Haydn and the Performance of  Rhetoric. (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 2007). Pp. xx + 366. 6 color ills. DVD...

... of English Poetry, 1765  – 1810 (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2008). Pp. xiv + 387. $99. ISBN 978-0-19-953220-9 Eighteenth-Century Life Volume 33, Number 2, Spring 2009  © 2009 by Duke University Press 115 116      Eighteenth...