Voice and Context in Eighteenth-Century Verse: Order in Variety

Acknowledgements
Authors ' ' Biographies
Professor Bill Overton, 1946-2012: A Personal Memoir; Hermann Josef Real
Introduction; Allan Ingram and Joanna Fowler
PART I: FORM AND INFLUENCE
Pope ' 's Horatian Voice; Nigel Wood
Celebrating Universal Beauty: Henry Brooke ' 's In-between Poetics; John Baker
Argumentative Emphases in Pope ' 's An Essay on Man; Tom Jones
' 'Stricken Deer and Digressive Diplomacy ' ': The Influence of Matthew Prior upon William Cowper; Conrad Brunström
PART II: SCIENCE AND NATURE
' 'When Universal Nature I Survey ' ': Philosophical Poetry Before 1750; Megan Kitching
Metering Mineral Resources: Verse Jewels on Earth ' 's Treasures; Kevin Cope
Deserted Village and Animated Nature: An Ecocritical Approach to Oliver Goldsmith; Brycchan Carey
Footnotes to a Nation: Richard Llwyd ' 's Beaumaris Bay (1800); Elizabeth Edwards
PART III: WOMEN ' 'S VERSE AND GENRES
' 'I wish the child, I call my own ' ': [Pro]Creative Experience in Eighteenth-Century Poetry; Ashleigh Blackwood
Figs and Fame: Envisioning the Future in Women ' 's Poetry; Mascha Hansen
Women Poets and the Mock-Heroic Elegy; Joanna Fowler
PART IV: SELF AND OTHERS
Getting Personal: Swift ' 's Non-Public Poetry; Allan Ingram
Blind Woman on the Rampage: Priscilla Pointon ' 's Grand Tour of the Midlands and the question of the legitimacy of sources for biography; Chris Mounsey
' 'What a Creature is Man ' ': The Melancholia, Literary Ambition, and Manly Fortitude of Robert Burns; Leigh Wetherall Dickson
Bibliography
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