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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 95–100.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Brean S. Hammond The Collected Verse of John, Lord Hervey (1696–1743) , ed. Overton Bill Hobby Elaine McLaverty James ( Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. , 2016 ). Pp. liv + 787 . $120 Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 R e v i e w E s s a y Eighteenth- Century...
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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 (2024) 48 (1): 50–71.
Published: 01 January 2024
... University Press 2024 manuscript verse miscellany owning authorship signing Azarias Williams In this essay, I will investigate what it meant to “own” a manuscript verse miscellany in the eighteenth century: that is, to be the compiler-creator of a collection of contemporary poetry, largely...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (1): 21–50.
Published: 01 January 2013
... literary patrons, notably David Hume, Joseph Spence, James Beattie, and Henry Mackenzie. The discussion focuses upon Blacklock’s substantial vernacular verse epistle “To the Revd Mr. Oliver On receiving a collection of Scotch poems from him,” published here for the first time in its entirety (see appendix...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 32–55.
Published: 01 January 2017
... the first
compilation of English verse deliberately offered as a literary anthology.”24
“Lycidas” is not widely reprinted, appearing only in various editions of A
Select Collection of Modern Poems (1744–63).
“L’Allegro” and “Il Penseroso” are popular in miscellanies, particu-
larly...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 111–135.
Published: 01 April 2020
... valuable body of our arts.” Specimens collected and collated with the text anchor, document, and illustrate the words on the page. As a result, an identical multiple in a print run was turned into a unique object. Through the art of extraillustration, the extra-illustrator Richard Bull “erected for himself...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (1): 79–108.
Published: 01 January 2022
...Michael Nicholson Mary Leapor, Mary Scott, Joanna Southcott, Lucy Aikin, and their peers collectively articulate what I call women's “superior secondariness.” To counter an eighteenth-century culture that represented man as “primary” (universal and originary) and woman as “secondary” (derivative...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 56–75.
Published: 01 January 2017
... of the two earls, The Works is a true
miscellany in that it contains the verse of multiple other writers printed
alongside Roscommon’s poetry in volume two of the collection. The mis-
cellany represents a range of poets of the period, including titled poets (the
Earl of Dorset, Sir Roger L’Estrange...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 142–157.
Published: 01 January 2017
...: tens of thousands of poems were pub-
lished in their pages. The role these collections played in constructing and
shaping the reputations of those authors is not, however, straightforward.
As records in the Digital Miscellanies Index (DMI) reveal, verse in mis-
cellanies was printed without...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 60–80.
Published: 01 September 2011
... of verse printed by James Watson: “This
day is publish’d a choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems,
both Ancient and Modern. By Several Hands.” 1 The second and third vol-
umes followed in 1709 and 1711 respectively. As the first published anthol-
ogy of Scottish poetry, the Choice...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 January 2017
... the sheer quantity of verse published in the century—
the thousands of substantial, separately published poems, the hundreds
of volumes of collected poems by individual authors, the innumerable
miscellanies by several hands, all the verse which appeared in the poetry
sections of hundreds...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (1): 57–80.
Published: 01 January 2008
... and
Dryden, were evidently selected to present English efforts at important
public performances and for the published collections of verse put out by
the school.7 Simply because these publications were in English, they had a
potentially wider audience and therefore likely attracted a close supervisory...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 162–167.
Published: 01 April 2016
.... Andrew Carpenter and Lucy Collins.
Pp. xiv + 418. €39, £35
•
Andrew Carpenter has contributed more than perhaps any other scholar to the
recovery and reconstruction of eighteenth-century Irish poetry. His seminal
collection Verse in English from Eighteenth...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 7–31.
Published: 01 January 2017
... than mere entertainment on the stage. However, printed
miscellanies also helped shift the consumption of Shakespeare’s text from
stage to page.
These poetic collections depend on a reading practice that admired
quick shots of particular, isolated, linguistically fine, or sententious verse.8...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 197–230.
Published: 01 January 2017
.... Together with “Shocky and Towzer” and other
verse tales, the collection gathered a wide range of comic genres, in prose
as well as poetry. There were satirical essays (“On the way to Preferment,”
“On Behaviour in Conversation mock epitaphs on hated wives, updated
folktales like “The King...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 57–80.
Published: 01 September 2012
... of Poetic Collections, ed.
Neil Fraisart (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina, 1986), 254 – 72.
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5. For similar comments, see Robert Boyle, Some Considerations Touching
the Style of the H. Scriptures (London, 1661), 60, where he correctly attributes the
verse...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 1–28.
Published: 01 September 2011
... in the Epistle to Robert Earl of Oxford, and Earl Mortimer (1722),
Pope’s prefatory verses to a collection of poems by the late Thomas Parnell:
For him, thou oft hast bid the World attend,
Fond to forget the Statesman in the Friend;
For Swift and him, despis’d the Farce of State...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 17–42.
Published: 01 April 2020
... methods from folklore, musicology, and literary study. The formats of the ephemera, and their performative modes seemingly identify these expressions as impermanent; at the same time, examining them collectively, we recognize an ironic gesture for lasting universal human sentiment and meaning...
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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 158–178.
Published: 01 January 2017
... of their work by authors or other well-known figures; editions of
their writing; allusions, complimentary or otherwise, from poetic echoes in
homage to incidental uses in epigraphs or chapter headings. Such material
could be included, after apparent neglect, in a collection, and its example
used...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 179–196.
Published: 01 January 2017
...
Abigail Williams
St. Peter’s College, University of Oxford
The essays collected in this journal issue illustrate some of the various ways
in which scholars can draw on miscellanies as an important, and relatively
neglected, form of transmission for eighteenth-century verse. The Digi...
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