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 fraud
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 Dar cy (University College, London), Modern Language Review*

This title is another addition to the reliable Oxford Handbooks series and 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... Even the poet seeking understanding of their heritage, will be extremely well-served by this book.
*Linda Kemp (Nottingham Trent University), Reference Reviews volume 31, issue 6.*

these essays are witty, erudite, and enormously helpful to anyone reading or teaching in this area ... This chapter is interesting for literary historians and formalists, but also for those interested in the subtle cultural shifts of the period. Other 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*