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Download as PDF; Printable version; ... and in 1711 University Reader or Professor of Poetry. ... Thomas Tickell at the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA)
Eighteenth century women poets: an Oxford anthology is a poetry anthology edited by Roger Lonsdale and published in 1989 by the Oxford University Press.In the introduction, Lonsdale notes that while the featured writers may have flourished, to one degree or another, during the eighteenth century, by the time he came to collect their work, many of them had "disappeared from view."
James Macpherson at the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA) Digitised version of Fingal, an ancient epic poem. : In six books: together with several other poems, composed by Ossian the son of Fingal. / Translated from the Galic language, by James Macpherson.., 1762 edition at National Library of Scotland; Literary Encyclopedia: Ossian
William Cowper (/ ˈ k uː p ər / KOO-pər; 15 November 1731 [2] / 26 November 1731 – 14 April 1800 [2] / 25 April 1800 ()) was an English poet and Anglican hymnwriter.. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th-century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. ... 18th-century poetry books (8 C) P. 18th-century poems (11 C ...
Thomas Gray at the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA) Physical collections. Thomas Gray (1716–1771) Jo Koster. Literary analysis and biography with illustrations. In the preceding link there are only four illustrations of Gray's poetry, but there are a total of six William Blake did for some of Gray's most popular poems.
Among his other works are the historical tragedies Elfrida (1752) and Caractacus (1759) (both used in translation as libretti for 18th century operas: Elfrida - Paisiello and LeMoyne, Caractacus - Sacchini (as Arvire et Évélina) and a long poem on gardening, The English Garden (three volumes, 1772–82).
Shenstone's poems of nature were written in praise of its most artificial aspects, but the emotions they express were obviously genuine. His Schoolmistress was admired by Oliver Goldsmith, with whom Shenstone had much in common, and his Elegies written at various times and to some extent biographical in character won the praise of Robert Burns who, in the preface to Poems, chiefly in the ...