• ISBN13: 9780199600809
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: December 20, 2016
• Pages: 818
• Original Price: USD 170.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 1565 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Poetry

In the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the poetry published in Britain between the Restoration and the end of the eighteenth century, 44 authorities from six countries survey the poetry of the age in all its richness and diversity--serious and satirical, public and private, by men and women, nobles and peasants, whether published in deluxe editions or sung on the streets. The contributors discuss poems in social contexts, poetic identities, poetic subjects, poetic form, poetic genres, poetic devices, and criticism. Even experts in eighteenth-century poetry will see familiar poems from new angles and all readers will encounter poems they've never read before. The book is not a chronologically organized literary history, nor an encyclopedia, nor a collection of thematically related essays; rather it is an attempt to provide a systematic overview of these poetic works and to restore it to a position of centrality in modern criticism.

Jack Lynch is Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark and the author or editor of eighteen books, including The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson and Deception and Detection in Eighteenth-Century Britain. He is co-editor of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual.