The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century VerseRoger H. Lonsdale, Roger Lonsdale Oxford University Press, 1984 - 870 страница Anthologies of eighteenth-century verse have tended to confirm traditional notions of the period as one of untroubled elegance, urbanity, and decorum. Offering over 550 poems and extracts by more than 250 poets, The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse presents a truer picture of this age as a much less stable and decorous time. This extraordinarily comprehensive volume includes not only a generous selection of verse by such renowned poets as Swift, Pope, Johnson, Gray, Smart, Goldsmith, Cowper, Blake, and Burns, but also a large number of poems by lesser-known and previously ignored poets. Intermixing the familiar styles and preoccupations of "polite" taste with much less familiar verse from all social levels, it reveals the willingness of the century's poets to respond graphically, humorously, or unconventionally to all aspects of rural and urban life. Topics range from golf and hypnotism to amorous adventure and marital discord, from growing sensitivity to natural beauty to fear of the effects of the Industrial Revolution, and from the anguish of poverty and unemployment to animated political exchanges in the wake of the French Revolution. Taken together, these poems reveal that both unpredictability and familiarity played as significant a role as Augustan reason played in the world of eighteenth-century poetry. The anthology also includes a helpful introduction, notes, and a glossary. |
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... fear no hell , but where such Christians go . Of Jesus Christ they very often hear , Often as his blaspheming servants swear ; They hear and wonder what strange gods they be , Can bear with patience such indignity . They look for ...
... fear no hell , but where such Christians go . Of Jesus Christ they very often hear , Often as his blaspheming servants swear ; They hear and wonder what strange gods they be , Can bear with patience such indignity . They look for ...
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... Fear STROPHE THOU , to whom the world unknown With all its shadowy shapes is shown ; Who see'st appalled th ' unreal scene , While Fancy lifts the veil between : Ah Fear ! ah frantic Fear ! I see , I see thee near ! I know thy hurried ...
... Fear STROPHE THOU , to whom the world unknown With all its shadowy shapes is shown ; Who see'st appalled th ' unreal scene , While Fancy lifts the veil between : Ah Fear ! ah frantic Fear ! I see , I see thee near ! I know thy hurried ...
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... Fear , this ghastly train can see , And look not madly wild , like thee ? 20 20 EPODE In earliest Greece , to thee , with partial choice , The grief - full Muse addressed her infant tongue ; The maids and matrons on her awful voice ...
... Fear , this ghastly train can see , And look not madly wild , like thee ? 20 20 EPODE In earliest Greece , to thee , with partial choice , The grief - full Muse addressed her infant tongue ; The maids and matrons on her awful voice ...
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