English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789

David Fairer is Professor of Eighteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Leeds.

"enormously valuable introduction....the standard text for students of that period." Romanticism, 10.1, 2004 '...an accessible dtyle of criticism that seems both natural and suggestive'The Coleridge Bulletin

• Editors' Preface Acknowledgements Author's Preface 1. Between Manuscript and Print 2. Debating Politeness 3. Wit, Imagination, and Mock-Heroic 4. The Verse Letter 5. Pastoral and Georgic 6. The Romantic Mode, 1700-1730 7. Sublimity, Nature and God 8. Recovering the Past 9. Genuine Voices 10. Economics of Landscape 11. Sensibility: Selves, Friends, Communities Chronology General Bibliographies Individual Poets