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4 - Poetry, after 1740

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2008

By
William Keach
Edited by
H. B. Nisbet  and
Claude Rawson
H. B. Nisbet
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Claude Rawson
Affiliation:
Yale University, Connecticut
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The proliferation, dissolution, and crossing of genres

The poetry produced during the middle and later eighteenth century confronts us with an impressive formal and thematic diversity. Simply listing some of the more influential verse published in England during the 1740s will indicate the protean situation: Collins's Persian Eclogues (1742) and Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegorical Subjects (1746); Pope's New Dunciad, Robert Blair's The Grave, and Hammond's Love Elegies (all 1743); Akenside's The Pleasures of Imagination (1744) and Odes (1745); Joseph Warton's The Enthusiast: or The Lover of Nature (1744-8) and Odes on Various Subjects (1746); Young's Night Thoughts (1742-5); the final edition of Thomson's The Seasons (1746) and The Castle of Indolence (1748); Thomas Warton's The Pleasures of Melancholy and Gray's Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College (both 1747); Shenstone's The School-Mistress (1748); Johnson's The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749). The first edition of Robert Dodsley's A Collection of Poems, by Several Hands in 1748 is in itself a demonstration of generic profusion as well as authorial range. The influence of Pope and Augustan satire is still evident alongside the newer poetry of Akenside, Collins, the Wartons, Gray, Mason, Shenstone; there are satires, epigrams, and verse epistles as well as hymns, odes, and elegies. The success of Dodsley's collection in its first and subsequent editions testifies to a remarkably flexible, eclectic mid-century readership. On the continent, neo-classical preferences sustained their predominance somewhat longer and more pervasively, but there too poetry was moving towards generic variety and crossing.

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The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism , pp. 117 - 166
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Print publication year: 1997

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