Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.

Reviews

...[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.
*Emrys Jones, King's College London, New Rambler*

The best pieces in this volume take account of recent book history, which has transformed our understanding of print culture in the period... Hammond's exemplary account, wide-ranging, insightful, and beautifully written,is one example among many of the riches of this book.
*Jane Darcy (University College, London), Modern Language Review*

Once again Oxford University Press has published a library staple... A core collection for university or college libraries supporting English literature programmes. It should also be seriously considered as an excellent addition to the stock of public libraries supporting a poetry collection... This Handbook distinguishes itself through its coverage, presentation and writing style.
*Linda Kemp (Nottingham Trent University), Reference Reviews*

These essays are witty, erudite, and enormously helpful to anyone reading or teaching in this area ... [the] chapters are similarly gratifying, and I think this will be a useful text for studying the poetry of the eighteenth century.
*George E. Haggerty, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900*

The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800 displays scholarship at its communal best
*Norma Clarke, Times Literary Supplement*