The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800

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.

...[I]ts eclectic contextual and thematic studies, wonderfully reflective of the current state of the eighteenth-century studies as a discipline, will reveal the period's relationship to poetry in all its complexity and contradiction.

• Introduction Part I: Poems in Social Settings 1: William Donaldson: Poems on the Streets 2: Cynthia Wall: Poems on the Stage 3: James McLaverty: Poems in Print 4: Jennifer Batt: Poems in Magazines 5: Tom Keymer: Poems in the Novel 6: Andrea Immel and Lissa Paul: Poems in the Nursery 7: Richard Terry: Poems in the Lecture Hall Part II: Poetic Identities 8: Moyra Haslett: The Poet as Clubman 9: Brean Hammond: The Poet as Professional 10: Bridget Keegan: The Poet as Laborer 11: Lorna Clymer: The Poet as Teacher 12: Rivka Swenson: The Poet as Man of Feeling 13: Marshall Brown: The Poet as Genius 14: Nick Groom: The Poet as Fraud 15: Isobel Grundy: The Poet as Poetess Part III: Poetic Subjects 16: David F. Venturo: Poems on Poetry 17: Christine Gerrard: Poems on Politics 18: Leith Davis: Poems on Nation and Empire 19: Pat Rogers: Poems on Science and Philosophy 20: Donna Landry: Poems on Place 21: Catherine Ingrassia: Poems on the Sexes Part IV: Poetic Form 22: J. Paul Hunter: Couplets 23: Conrad Brünstrom: Blank Verse 24: Rodney Stenning Edgecombe: Stanzas 25: Richard Bradford: Free Verse and Prose Poetry Part V: Poetic Genres 26: David Hill Radcliffe: Pastoral 27: David Fairer: Georgic 28: Anna Foy: Epic 29: Ashley Marshall: Satire 30: Sandro Jung: Ode 31: James D. Garrison: Elegy 32: Ruth Perry: Ballad 33: Emma Mason: Devotional Poetry 34: Jennifer Keith: Lyric 35: Tanya Caldwell: Translation Part VI: Poetic Devices 36: Timothy Erwin: Imagery 37: Blanford Parker: Metaphor 38: Marcus Walsh: Allusion 39: Jack Lynch: Irony Part VII: Criticism 40: Adam Rounce: Scholarship 41: Philip Smallwood: Histories 42: Antonia Forster: Reviews 43: Daniel J. Ennis: Honors