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Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760-90

Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760-90

Hardcover

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 1783087722
ISBN13: 9781783087723
Publisher: Anthem Pr
Published: Apr 10 2018
Pages: 222
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

'Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760-1790' explores the role of poetry in eighteenth-century thinking on human progress. Its central contention is that the textural, verbal characteristics of poetry were a crucial form of response to ideas of human development. That is, the aesthetics of verse - how poetry appeals to the senses as well as to the intellect - constitute inadequately appreciated forms of response to the ideas of progress which were developing and gaining popular traction in Britain in the period 1760-1790.

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