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1) Burns: poems
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
Description
A collection of poems and songs by eighteenth-century Scottish writer Robert Burns.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Description
Challenging the traditional, narrow view of eighteenth-century poetry as an era of Augustan reason, this anthology presents 552 selections, including scurrilous, bawdy, and anti-rational verse, as well as themes usually associated with the century's poetry.
Contains over 550 poems and excerpts by more than 250 poets from the eighteenth century.
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The Rape of the Lock (1906) is a classic, epic poem by English literary icon Alexander Pope. Known for his caustic wit and satirical outlook as much as he was for his formal expertise, Pope is arguably the most important English poet of the eighteenth century. His work influenced such figures as William Wordsworth, Samuel Johnson, and Jonathan Swift.
Drawing on his immense knowledge of ancient Greek and Latin literature, Alexander Pope's The Rape...
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Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
1994
Description
Considered the preeminent verse satirist in English, Alexander Pope (1688-1744) brought wide learning, devastating wit and masterly technique to his poems. Models of clarity and control, they exemplified the classical poetics of the Augustan age. This volume contains a rich selection of Pope's work, including such well-known poems as the title selection-a philosophical meditation on the nature of the universe and man's place in it-and "The Rape of...
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Digireads.com Pub
Pub. Date
[2007], ©2007
Description
A visionary of eighteen-century English society, William Blake produced a huge collection of poetry, mythology, satires, political pieces, and prophetic works, in addition to his famous etchings and engravings. Although rejected as a madman during his lifetime for claims of hearing voices and later having visions, Blake has achieved notoriety as an innovative and extraordinarily imaginative artist. His poetry varies greatly in style and substance,...
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Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2009
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Professor Adam Potkay brings his renowned expertise on the Romantic era to bear on the period's principal poets. Providing a detailed analysis of the lives and works of literary luminaries such as Robert Burns, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and John Keats, Professor Potkay examines the nature of Romantic poetry and provides insight into the stylistic flourishes and themes of this remarkable period.
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Brockhampton Press
Pub. Date
©1996
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A collection of poems by English Romantic poet John Keats selected from his published works, complemented by reproductions of Pre-Raphaelite paintings, and including a biographical introduction and a chronology of Keats's short life.
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