Cultural Formations: The Eighteenth Century – serie

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5 produkter

1. 

   Reliques of Ancient English Poetry

   Av Thomas Percy

   1996

   17235 kr

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   The Reliques is a collection of ballads, songs, romances and historical poetry, annotated with Percy's literary-antiquarian observations. It is a seminal text in English literature, one that profoundly influenced writers from Thomas Chatterton to Wordsworth, Coleridge and Keats and the …

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   Collection of Poems by Several Hands

   Av Robert Dodsley

   1997

   15729 kr

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   This was the best-selling poetry anthology of the eighteenth century, edited by the most celebrated publisher of the era, Alexander Pope's protege, Robert Dodsley. It includes poems by Samuel Johnson, Thomas Gray, David Garrick, Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Horace Walpole, Joseph and Thomas Warton, …

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   Warton's History of English Poetry

   Av David Fairer

   1998

   17235 kr

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   Thomas Warton's History of English Poetry (1774-81) was the great pioneering work of English literary history. Telling the story from the Norman Conquest to the beginning of the seventeenth century, Warton's volumes gave Britain a first real sense of the full richness of its literary past. For the …

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   Spenser's Faerie Queene

   Warton's Observations and Hurd's Letters

   Av David Fairer

   2000

   20906 kr

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   This set publishes two of the most influential critical works of the eighteenth century together for the first time. Richard Hurd's Letters on Chivalry and Romance and the second (enlarged) edition of Thomas Warton's Observations on the Fairy Queen appeared within a few months of each other in …

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   Alexander Pope and his Critics

   Av Adam Rounce

   2003

   11169 kr

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   Warton's Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope was one of the most influential critical works of the eighteenth century. Warton's sustained commentary on the most significant English poet of the century was read as both a promotion of Pope's literary genius, and an attack on it, and as such …