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The Sister Arts: The Tradition of Literary Pictorialism and English Poetry from Dryden to GrayThe Sister Arts: The Tradition of Literary Pictorialism and English Poetry from Dryden to Gray
"The Sister Arts is A BRILLIANT CLASSIC of scholarship, the inaugural text in the...
Moralized Song: The Character of Augustan LyricismMoralized Song: The Character of Augustan Lyricism
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The Figure in the Landscape: Poetry, Painting, and Gardening during the Eighteenth CenturyThe Figure in the Landscape: Poetry, Painting, and Gardening during the Eighteenth Century
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Eighteenth-century England saw the rise of a "peculiarly English" art form --...
Feigned Commonwealths: The Country-House Poem and the Fashioning of the Ideal Community (Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies)Feigned Commonwealths: The Country-House Poem and the Fashioning of the Ideal Community (Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies)
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This wide-ranging treatment of the country-house poem greatly expands the parameters of earlier...
Romanticism, Lyricism, and HistoryRomanticism, Lyricism, and History
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Arguing against a persistent view of Romantic lyricism as an inherently introspective mode, this...


Approaches to Teaching Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Approaches to Teaching World Literature)Approaches to Teaching Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Approaches to Teaching World Literature)
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Selected Poems (Fyfield Books)Selected Poems (Fyfield Books)
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This selection, from the poetry of Thomas Gray, Charles Churchill and William Cowper, brings...
Personification in Eighteenth-Century English PoetryPersonification in Eighteenth-Century English Poetry
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The Sister ArtsThe Sister ArtsPoemas de Lord Byron (Clasicos de la literatura series) (Spanish Edition)Poemas de Lord Byron (Clasicos de la literatura series) (Spanish Edition)
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For lovers of timeless classics, this series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced...


[Poems] (A library of poetical literature)[Poems] (A library of poetical literature)The lives of the most celebrated English poets,The lives of the most celebrated English poets,The English Romantic Poets: An Anthology With CommentariesThe English Romantic Poets: An Anthology With Commentaries
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A bibliography of English poetical miscellanies 1660-1720 in the Alexander Turnbull Library (Turnbull Library bulletin)A bibliography of English poetical miscellanies 1660-1720 in the Alexander Turnbull Library (Turnbull Library bulletin)Life: Organic Form and RomanticismLife: Organic Form and Romanticism
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What makes something alive?  Or, more to the point, what is life? The question is as old as...

The IntelligencerThe Intelligencer
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In 1728-1729, Jonathan Swift and his friend Thomas Sheridan anonymously published the...
From Sensibility to Romanticism (Galaxy Books)From Sensibility to Romanticism (Galaxy Books)Poetry and the Creation of a Whig Literary Culture, 1681-1714Poetry and the Creation of a Whig Literary Culture, 1681-1714
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Poetry and the Creation of Whig Literary Culture offers a revisionist history of early...
Lives of the English poets: Bulter, Denham, Dryden, Roscommon, Sprat, Dorset, Rochester, Ottway (Cassell's National Library)Lives of the English poets: Bulter, Denham, Dryden, Roscommon, Sprat, Dorset, Rochester, Ottway (Cassell's National Library)Oliver Goldsmith: His Reputation Re-AssessedOliver Goldsmith: His Reputation Re-Assessed

The poetical works of George Lord Lyttleton: With the life of the author (Poets of Great Britain)The poetical works of George Lord Lyttleton: With the life of the author (Poets of Great Britain)The poetical works of William Broome, L.L.D: With the life of the author (The Poets of Great Britain)The poetical works of William Broome, L.L.D: With the life of the author (The Poets of Great Britain)Tradition and Experiment in the Poetry of Salzburg (Salzburg Studies in English Literature)Tradition and Experiment in the Poetry of Salzburg (Salzburg Studies in English Literature)From narrative to "description" and "sense" in eighteenth-century poetryFrom narrative to "description" and "sense" in eighteenth-century poetryCowper and his times, 1775-1800 A.D (British anthologies)Cowper and his times, 1775-1800 A.D (British anthologies)

A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)
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This broad-ranging Companion gives readers a thorough grounding in both the background and the...
The Complete Poetical Works: Volume 3 (Oxford English Texts)The Complete Poetical Works: Volume 3 (Oxford English Texts)
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This is the first collected edition of the verse for some eighty years. The editors use much...
The revival of the sonnet sequence, 1783-1814The revival of the sonnet sequence, 1783-1814Poetry of the Romantic Period (The Routledge History of English Poetry)Poetry of the Romantic Period (The Routledge History of English Poetry)English Poetry of the Romantic Period (Longman Literature in English Series)English Poetry of the Romantic Period (Longman Literature in English Series)
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On its first appearance English Poetry of the Romantic Period was widely praised as on of the...

Selected Poems (Fyfield Books)Selected Poems (Fyfield Books)
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Christopher Smart was one of the most original of 18th-century English poets before William...
Poets of Sensibility and the Sublime (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)Poets of Sensibility and the Sublime (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
A collection of critical essays on English poetry during the Age of Sensibility and the Sublime,...
The Poetry of Vision: Five Eighteenth-Century PoetsThe Poetry of Vision: Five Eighteenth-Century PoetsCowper: poetical worksCowper: poetical worksRomantic encounter with Hinduism: SoutheyRomantic encounter with Hinduism: Southey

Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (Blackwell Anthologies)Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (Blackwell Anthologies)
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In Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology, David Fairer and Christine Gerrard have...
The poetical works of Charles Churchill: With the life of the author (The Poets of Great Britain)The poetical works of Charles Churchill: With the life of the author (The Poets of Great Britain)The poetical works of Gilbert West: With the life of the author (The Poets of Great Britain)The poetical works of Gilbert West: With the life of the author (The Poets of Great Britain)British poets of the revolution age: (Burns, Byron, Moore, Scott, Shelley, Wordsworth) 1776-1848British poets of the revolution age: (Burns, Byron, Moore, Scott, Shelley, Wordsworth) 1776-1848The Amherst Wordsworth collection;: A descriptive bibliography,The Amherst Wordsworth collection;: A descriptive bibliography,

The Pre-Raphaelite Poets (The Norton Library)The Pre-Raphaelite Poets (The Norton Library)
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The poetical works of William Shenstone: With the life of the author (The Poets of Great Britain)The poetical works of William Shenstone: With the life of the author (The Poets of Great Britain)Golden verses of the British poets,: Selected for the use of schools and young personsGolden verses of the British poets,: Selected for the use of schools and young personsThe poetical works of Collins, Gray, Beattie, and GoldsmithThe poetical works of Collins, Gray, Beattie, and GoldsmithPoetical sketches: The profession, the broken heart, etc. : with stanzas for music, and other poems,Poetical sketches: The profession, the broken heart, etc. : with stanzas for music, and other poems,

The manner of proceeding in certain eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century poems (In British Academy, London)The manner of proceeding in certain eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century poems (In British Academy, London)Wordsworth's Classical Undersong: Education, Rhetoric and Poetic TruthWordsworth's Classical Undersong: Education, Rhetoric and Poetic Truth
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Wordsworth's classical education presents an amazing paradox: gifted teachers trained him in the...
Selected poems of Gray, Collins, Goldsmith and Cowper, (The "Teaching of English series.")Selected poems of Gray, Collins, Goldsmith and Cowper, (The "Teaching of English series.")The poets' view of NewtonThe poets' view of NewtonThomas Warton: A biographical and critical studyThomas Warton: A biographical and critical study

Oriental diction and theme in English verse, 1740-1840, (Bulletin of the University of Kansas, [vol. XVII, no. 9] Humanistic studies. v. 2, no. 1 [no. 5])Oriental diction and theme in English verse, 1740-1840, (Bulletin of the University of Kansas, [vol. XVII, no. 9] Humanistic studies. v. 2, no. 1 [no. 5])The background of Gray's Elegy;: A study in the taste for melancholy poetry, 1700-1751 (Columbia University studies in English and comparative literature)The background of Gray's Elegy;: A study in the taste for melancholy poetry, 1700-1751 (Columbia University studies in English and comparative literature)Reading syllabus of the Georgian and Victorian poetsReading syllabus of the Georgian and Victorian poetsThe London minstrel: A collection of esteemed English, Irish, and Scotch songs, glees, duets, &c. &c. ... : set to music, and adapted to the voice, flute, violin, &cThe London minstrel: A collection of esteemed English, Irish, and Scotch songs, glees, duets, &c. &c. ... : set to music, and adapted to the voice, flute, violin, &cEighteenth century English romantic poetry (up till the publication of the "Lyrical ballads", 1798)Eighteenth century English romantic poetry (up till the publication of the "Lyrical ballads", 1798)
Up till the publication of the "Lyrical Ballads", 1798.

The reputation of the metaphysical poets during the age of Johnson and the romantic revivalThe reputation of the metaphysical poets during the age of Johnson and the romantic revivalThe metrical miscellany: Consisting chiefly of poems hitherto unpublishedThe metrical miscellany: Consisting chiefly of poems hitherto unpublishedLandscape, Liberty and Authority: Poetry, Criticism and Politics from Thomson to Wordsworth (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought)Landscape, Liberty and Authority: Poetry, Criticism and Politics from Thomson to Wordsworth (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought)
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Tim Fulford examines landscape description in the writings of Thomson, Cowper, Johnson, Gilpin,...
The poetical works of John Cummingham: With the life of the author (The Poets of Great Britain)The poetical works of John Cummingham: With the life of the author (The Poets of Great Britain) 
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