Reading Swift's Poetry
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2020
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-84095-8 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-84095-8 (ISBN)
The first of its kind since 1988, this book is the most extensive study of Swift's poetry yet, as it examines dozens of poems written over a long career, from the early 1690s to the late 1730s, along with the works of other authors.
Poets are makers, etymologically speaking. In practice, they are also thieves. Over a long career, from the early 1690s to the late 1730s, Jonathan Swift thrived on a creative tension between original poetry-making and the filching of familiar material from the poetic archive. The most extensive study of Swift's verse to appear in more than thirty years, Reading Swift's Poetry offers detailed readings of dozens of major poems, as well as neglected and recently recovered pieces. This book reaffirms Swift's prominence in competing literary traditions as diverse as the pastoral and the political, the metaphysical and the satirical, and demonstrates the persistence of unlikely literary tropes across his multifaceted career. Daniel Cook also considers the audacious ways in which Swift engages with Juvenal's satires, Horace's epistles, Milton's epics, Cowley's odes, and an astonishing array of other canonical and forgotten writers.
Poets are makers, etymologically speaking. In practice, they are also thieves. Over a long career, from the early 1690s to the late 1730s, Jonathan Swift thrived on a creative tension between original poetry-making and the filching of familiar material from the poetic archive. The most extensive study of Swift's verse to appear in more than thirty years, Reading Swift's Poetry offers detailed readings of dozens of major poems, as well as neglected and recently recovered pieces. This book reaffirms Swift's prominence in competing literary traditions as diverse as the pastoral and the political, the metaphysical and the satirical, and demonstrates the persistence of unlikely literary tropes across his multifaceted career. Daniel Cook also considers the audacious ways in which Swift engages with Juvenal's satires, Horace's epistles, Milton's epics, Cowley's odes, and an astonishing array of other canonical and forgotten writers.
Daniel Cook is the Head of the English department at the University of Dundee. The author and editor of thirteen books, he has written extensively on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and Irish literature. His books include The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction and The Cambridge Companion to 'Gulliver's Travels' (both Cambridge University Press).
1. Early poems; 2. Moderns and ancients; 3. Love and books; 4. Telling tales; 5. Market Hill; 6. Swift's remains.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.08.2020 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 235 x 150 mm |
| Gewicht | 610 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-108-84095-7 / 1108840957 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-108-84095-8 / 9781108840958 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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