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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
> Eighteenth-Century Life
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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in “A Volume of Manuscript Poems &c”: Phillis Wheatley Peters's Lost Book and a Found Proposal
> Eighteenth-Century Life
Published: 01 January 2024
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)
> Eighteenth-Century Life
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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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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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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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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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
In both eighteenth-century...
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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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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 261–272.
Published: 01 April 2023
... broadsides or poems appearing in magazines or newspapers would expand the bibliography substantially. Many authors included below, who began their careers as common sailors like Falconer and who found their way into print, have been selected from Goodridge's work. Since the navy and the merchant marine...
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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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in “A Volume of Manuscript Poems &c”: Phillis Wheatley Peters's Lost Book and a Found Proposal
> Eighteenth-Century Life
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
> Eighteenth-Century Life
Published: 01 January 2024
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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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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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 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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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 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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in “Let Genius Still This Glorious Object Own”: Naming, Signing, Authoring, and Owning in the Manuscript Verse Miscellany
> Eighteenth-Century Life
Published: 01 January 2024
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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in “Let Genius Still This Glorious Object Own”: Naming, Signing, Authoring, and Owning in the Manuscript Verse Miscellany
> Eighteenth-Century Life
Published: 01 January 2024
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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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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