Cultural Formations: The Eighteenth Century

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1. Alexander Pope and his Critics

   Edited by Adam Rounce

   Series: Cultural Formations: The Eighteenth Century

   Warton's Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope was one of the most influential critical works of the eighteenth century. Warton's sustained commentary on the most significant English poet of the century was read as both a promotion of Pope's literary genius, and an attack on it, and as such...

   Published December 10th 2003 by Routledge
2. Spenser's Faerie Queene

   Warton's Observations and Hurd's Letters

   Edited by David Fairer

   Series: Cultural Formations: The Eighteenth Century

   This set publishes two of the most influential critical works of the eighteenth century together for the first time. Richard Hurd's Letters on Chivalry and Romance and the second (enlarged) edition of Thomas Warton's Observations on the Fairy Queen appeared within a few months of each other in 1762...

   Published October 25th 2000 by Routledge
3. Warton's History of English Poetry

   Edited by David Fairer

   Series: Cultural Formations: The Eighteenth Century

   Thomas Warton's History of English Poetry (1774-81) was the great pioneering work of English literary history. Telling the story from the Norman Conquest to the beginning of the seventeenth century, Warton's volumes gave Britain a first real sense of the full richness of its literary past. For the...

   Published January 21st 1998 by Routledge
4. A Collection of Poems by Several Hands

   By Robert Dodsley

   Series: Cultural Formations: The Eighteenth Century

   This was the best-selling poetry anthology of the eighteenth century, edited by the most celebrated publisher of the era, Alexander Pope's protege, Robert Dodsley. It includes poems by Samuel Johnson, Thomas Gray, David Garrick, Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Horace Walpole, Joseph and Thomas Warton,...

   Published July 9th 1997 by Routledge
5. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry

   Series: Cultural Formations: The Eighteenth Century

   The Reliques is a collection of ballads, songs, romances and historical poetry, annotated with Percy's literary-antiquarian observations. It is a seminal text in English literature, one that profoundly influenced writers from Thomas Chatterton to Wordsworth, Coleridge and Keats and the...

   Published July 31st 1996 by Routledge