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Paradise Lost , Poem of the Restoration Period
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 9–27.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Michael McKeon John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667, 1674) is often classified as a Renaissance epic, along with the great narrative poems of Ariosto, Tasso, and Spenser. However, this generic designation tells us much less about the formal nature of the poem than we learn when we contextualize...
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in “A Volume of Manuscript Poems &c”: Phillis Wheatley Peters's Lost Book and a Found Proposal
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Published: 01 January 2024
Figure 2. Facsimile of the handwriting of Phillis Wheatley, “Poem by Phillis Wheatley,” Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society 7 (October 1863): 165 – 67, inserted between pages 166 and 167, online at < http://www.jstor.org/stable/25079311 >.
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Figure 3. Letter and poem, “To his Excellency General Washington,” Pennsylvania Magazine 2 (April 1776): 129, Houghton Library, Harvard, P 316.1*.
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in The Enlightenment's Dark Spaces: Library as Heterotopia in The Dunciad in Four Books (1743)
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Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 3. The owl frontispiece to The Dunciad: An Heroic Poem, In Three Books (1728), Special Collections, Call No. PR 3625.A1 1728. Courtesy of the University of Virginia Library.
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A Connection between Chatterton and Wordsworth in Two Coleridge Poems
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 110–119.
Published: 01 April 2008
...Heidi Thomson Duke University Press 2008 R
A Connection between Chatterton and
Wordsworth in Two Coleridge Poems
Heidi Thomson
Victoria University of Wellington
Chatterton’s precocious display...
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Imagining the Miscellaneous Nation: James Watson's Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 60–80.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Leith Davis As the first published anthology of Scottish poetry, the Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems has long been regarded as a milestone in Scottish literary history. But acknowledgments of the Choice Collection 's importance have historically been coupled with criticisms about...
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Dryden’s Occult Rhetoric in the Early Poems, 1649 – 1663
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Jack M. Armistead In the poems composed before his first serious plays, Dryden rhetorically exploits the malleability of occult beliefs during this period. He uses the mixed attitudes toward astrology, alchemy, and, to a lesser extent, demonology and other folks beliefs, to broaden meaning...
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Appendix: A Bibliography of Poems Written by Sailors, Those Who Served at Sea, or Ascribed to Sailors
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 261–272.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Bridget Keegan [Robert Gambol?], The Beauties of the Universe, a Poem. By a Gentleman of the Navy . London: Printed and Sold by J. Roberts. Anon. The Sailor: or, a Sketch of the Seaman's Art in Working a Ship: In a Dialogue between a Captain and his two Mates. [In verse.] To which...
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“A Volume of Manuscript Poems &c”: Phillis Wheatley Peters's Lost Book and a Found Proposal
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (1): 183–216.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Figure 2. Facsimile of the handwriting of Phillis Wheatley, “Poem by Phillis Wheatley,” Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society 7 (October 1863): 165 – 67, inserted between pages 166 and 167, online at < http://www.jstor.org/stable/25079311 >. ...
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Deformity Poems and Other Nasties
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 197–230.
Published: 01 January 2017
...: cruel poems about physical defects and disabilities. Few texts could be more alien to current norms about the eighteenth century as an Age of Sensibility. Yet these “deformity poems” were produced in vast quantities and in every conceivable form, from epigrams about squinters, to long and absurdly...
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Ekphrasis and Gender in Anne Finch's Longleat Poems
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 84–107.
Published: 01 January 2016
... Press 2016 Anne Finch ekphrasis gender poetry aesthetics •
Ekphrasis and Gender in Anne Finch’s
Longleat Poems
Laura Tallon
Boston University
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in “A Volume of Manuscript Poems &c”: Phillis Wheatley Peters's Lost Book and a Found Proposal
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Published: 01 January 2024
Figure 8. Dedication page, with signature. Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (London: A. Bell, 1773), Houghton, AC7.W5602.773p(A).
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in “A Volume of Manuscript Poems &c”: Phillis Wheatley Peters's Lost Book and a Found Proposal
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Figure 9. Detail from the frontispiece of Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects (London: A Bell, 1773).
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in “The Tennis Ball of Fortune”: Print, Manuscript, and Provincial Literacies in The Chronicles of John Cannon
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Published: 01 January 2024
Figure 3. “Easter Wings” by George Herbert from The Temple. Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations , 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Printed by Thom Buck and Roger Daniels, 1633), 34 – 35, Bodleian Library, Oxford, online at EEBO, <ezproxy-prd.bodleian.ox.ac.uk:2082/eebo/docview/2240881967
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Elizabeth Munbee, “Miscellany Poems containing various kinds of Poetry coll...
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in “Let Genius Still This Glorious Object Own”: Naming, Signing, Authoring, and Owning in the Manuscript Verse Miscellany
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Published: 01 January 2024
Figure 1b. Elizabeth Munbee, “Miscellany Poems containing various kinds of Poetry collected from the most Eminent Poets With some Originals never publish'd, vol. y e 3d” (1745), title-page, Clark, MS 1982.002. Courtesy of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los
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Azarias Williams, “A Selection of Modern Poems,” title-page, Folger Shakesp...
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Figure 2. Azarias Williams, “A Selection of Modern Poems,” title-page, Folger Shakespeare Library, MS M.a.116. Courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Photograph by the author.
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Figure 3a Azarias Williams, “A Selection of Modern Poems,” p. 1 (detail), Folger, MS M.a.116. Courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Photograph by the author.
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Figure 3b. Azarias Williams, “A Selection of Modern Poems,” p. 3 (detail), Folger, MS M.a.116. Courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Photograph by the author.
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Azarias Williams, “A Selection of Modern Poems,” p. 16 (detail), Folger, MS...
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Figure 4. Azarias Williams, “A Selection of Modern Poems,” p. 16 (detail), Folger, MS M.a.116. Courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Photograph by the author.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: New Insights from the Digital Miscellanies Index
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 76–95.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Kathleen Lawton-Trask A sometime friend, sometime adversary of Alexander Pope, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu largely resisted publication, sharing her work privately and denying authorship of some of her poems that made their way into print. Nevertheless, today she is considered a prominent literary...
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