Eighteenth-Century Poetry

An Annotated Anthology

Fairer, David / Gerrard, Christine (Herausgeber)

Blackwell Annotated Anthologies

3. Auflage November 2014
688 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-1-118-82475-7

John Wiley & Sons

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Currently the definitive text in the field and now available in an expanded third edition, Eighteenth-Century Poetry presents the rich diversity of English poetry from 1700-1800 in authoritative texts and with full scholarly annotation.
* Balanced to reflect current interests and "favorites" (including prominent poets like Finch, Swift, Pope, Montagu, Johnson, Gray, Burns, and Cowper) as well as less familiar material, offering a variety of voices and new directions for research and learning
* Includes 46 new poems with more texts by women poets and the inclusion of four additional poets (Mary Barber, Mehetabel Wright, Anna Seward, and Mary Robinson); poems reflecting new ecological approaches to 18th-century literature; and poems on the art of writing
* Accessible and user-friendly, with generous head notes, full foot-of-page annotations, an expanded thematic index, and a visually appealing text design

Selected Contents by Theme xi

Alphabetical List of Authors xxi

Chronology of Events and Poetic Landmarks xxii

Introduction xxv

Preface to Third Edition xxvii

Preface to Second Edition xxix

Editorial Procedures xxx

Text xxxi

Acknowledgements xxxii

1 Women's Role in Society

2 Beauty and Vanity

3 Love and Courtship

4 Marriage

5 Mothers and Children

6 Humans and Animals

7 The Natural World

8 Urban Life

9 Houses and Gardens

10 Rural Life and Labour

11 Social Change

12 Nocturnal Meditation

13 The Role of the Poet

14 Literary Patronage and the Economics of Authorship

15 Autobiography

16 Recovering the Past

17 Contemplating Death

18 Madness

19 Visions

20 The Imagination

21 Liberty

22 God in Nature

23 Wealth and Poverty

24 Art and Nature

25 Portraits

26 Music

27 Letters

28 Politics, Power, and the State

29 Lyric

"Fairer and Gerrard's third edition of Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology is simply the one and only anthology to use when teaching 18th-Century British Poetry. The selections are judicious but wide-ranging, offering readers the traditional canonical figures as well as newly-recuperated poets, both male and female. The annotations are superbly informative and authoritative. Bravissimo!" --John Richetti, University of Pennsylvania

David Fairer is Professor of Eighteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Leeds, UK. His most recent book, Organising Poetry: The Coleridge Circle 1790-1798 (2009) traces the development of English poetry during the 1790s, building on the concerns of his previous comprehensive study, English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789 (2003). He is also the author of The Poetry of Alexander Pope (1989) and Pope's Imagination (1984), and editor of The Correspondence of Thomas Warton (1995) and Pope: New Contexts (1990).

Christine Gerrard is the Barbara Scott Fellow and Tutor in English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, UK. She has recently edited volume 1 of The Complete Correspondence of Samuel Richardson: Correspondence with Aaron Hill and the Hill Family (2013) which follows on from her literary biography Aaron Hill: The Muses' Projector, 1685-1750 (2003). She is the editor of A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry (Wiley Blackwell, 2006) and the author of The Patriot Opposition to Walpole: Politics, Poetry, and National Myth, 1725-1742 (1994).

D. Fairer, University of Leeds; C. Gerrard, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford