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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 105–110.
Published: 01 April 2015
...William Donaldson Henigan Julie . Literacy and Orality in Eighteenth–Century Irish Song . Poetry and Song in the Age of Revolution Series , no. 2 ( London : Pickering and Chatto , 2012 ). Pp. ix + 272. 9 ills. $99 Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (3): 76–96.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Joseph A. Dane; Svetlana Djananova Duke University Press 2005
The Typographical Gothic:
A Cautionary Note on the Title Page to
Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
Joseph...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 8–29.
Published: 01 September 2020
... reconciliation. Copyright 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 civil war Jacobitism odes war poetry William Collins Hester Mulso Chapone Tobias Smollett Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 44, Number 3, September 2020 doi 10.1215/00982601-8718633 Copyright 2020 by Duke University Press 8 Civil Rage...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 46–61.
Published: 01 September 2024
...James Morland In this article, I examine the role of conversations with the dead in the darkened solitude of grief in the poetry of Elizabeth Singer Rowe and Thomas Gray. Close reading reveals how grieving in darkness is often paralleled with a feeling of separation from a light‐filled system...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (1): 97–99.
Published: 01 January 2007
...David S. Shields Review
David S. Shields
University of South Carolina
Corey Andrews. Literary Nationalism in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Club Poetry.
Studies in British Literature, no. 82 (Lewiston: Edward Mellen...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 23–27.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Brett D. Wilson Review Essay
The Whig Interpretation of Poetry
Brett D. Wilson
College of William & Mary
Abigail Williams. Poetry and the Creation of a Whig Literary Culture, 1681 – 1714
(Oxford: Oxford...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 108–114.
Published: 01 September 2016
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The Poetry of History and Autobiography
Timothy M. Costelloe
College of William & Mary
James A. Harris. Hume: An Intellectual Biography (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.,
2015). Pp. xiii + 621. $55
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 140–159.
Published: 01 September 2020
...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...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (1): 57–80.
Published: 01 January 2008
...Aaron Santesso Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 R
“Playful” Poetry and the Public School
Aaron Santesso
University of Nevada
Not to name the school or the masters of men illustrious...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (1): 79–108.
Published: 01 January 2022
... that comes second in time, whether as a refined Eve in relation to a rudimentary Adam, or as the revisionary woman poet in relation to the originary masculine classic author. Taken together, their rewritings of Original Sin, human origins, English poetry, and Britain's progress transformed the discourse...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 130–134.
Published: 01 September 2010
...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...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 216–260.
Published: 01 April 2023
... are not numbered; the log entries occupy the first thirty-three leaves, and are followed by twenty-nine leaves of draft poems, here designated leaves 34v to 62r. These are the only surviving manuscripts of Falconer's poetry. We can assume from the log entries that the date of these drafts is 1760 onward, which...
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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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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (3): 89–94.
Published: 01 September 2018
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 84–107.
Published: 01 January 2016
...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...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (1): 50–75.
Published: 01 January 2019
... on a methodology that privileged the existence of multiple perspectives and the splitting of knowledge into facts. In “A Farewell to Poetry with a Long Digression on Anatomy,” Barker, in particular, offers a synthetic take on two issues: (1) the multiplicity of perception, now imaginatively disjointed...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 32–55.
Published: 01 January 2017
.... Modern critics, such as Dustin Griffin (1986), have explored how Milton's poetry influenced writers in the succeeding century, yet its appropriation in miscellaneous publications remains largely unexplored. This essay analyzes the history of Milton's reception in the period 1700-1800 through his...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 January 2016
... death in 1744, he no longer wrote this kind of poetry, but instead turned his creative energies toward passionate social and political satire, fashioning a poetic persona of the satirist as powerful, wide-ranging, virtually sacred raptor. Hence, Pope's poetic career moves in a direction from portraying...
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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...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 84–109.
Published: 01 January 2025
...Robert G. Walker Abstract James Robertson (1713 – 95) was born in Dublin but spent most of his life in England. By profession a comic actor associated for two decades with the York Theatre, in 1770 he published anonymously a relatively large volume of poetry (239 pages), with the title Poems...
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