Eighteenth-Century Poetry

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<p>Currently the definitive text in the field and now available in an expanded third edition,<i>Eighteenth-Century Poetry</i> presents the rich diversity of English poetry from 1700-1800 in authoritative texts and with full scholarly annotation.</p><ul><li>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</li><li>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</li><li>Accessible and user-friendly, with generous head notes, full foot-of-page annotations, an expanded thematic index, and a visually appealing text design</li></ul>

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<p><b>David Fairer</b> is Professor of Eighteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Leeds, UK. His most recent book,<i>Organising Poetry: The Coleridge Circle 1790-1798</i> (2009) traces the development of English poetry during the 1790s, building on the concerns of his previous comprehensive study,<i>E</i><i>nglish Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789</i> (2003). He is also the author of<i>The Poetry of Alexander Pope</i> (1989) and<i>Popes Imagination</i> (1984), and editor of<i>The Correspondence of Thomas Warton</i> (1995) and<i>Pope: New Contexts</i> (1990).<br /><br /><b>Christine Gerrard</b> is the Barbara Scott Fellow and Tutor in English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, UK. She has recently edited volume 1 of<i>The Complete Correspondence of Samuel Richardson: Correspondence with Aaron Hill and the Hill Family (</i>2013) which follows on from her literary biography<i>Aaron Hill: The Muses' Projector, 1685-1750</i> (2003).  She is the editor of<i>A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry</i> (Wiley Blackwell, 2006) and the author of<i>The Patriot Opposition to Walpole: Politics, Poetry, and National Myth, 17251742</i> (1994).</p>

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