Author:
Davie, Donald.
Imprint:New York : Continuum, 1993.
Description328 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Originally published: Manchester, England : Carcanet, c1990.
Note:Chaucer and one idea of Englishness - A reading of 'The ocean's love to Cynthia' - Shakespeare and the practising poet today - A west-country poet: Sidney Godolphin - Syntax and music in Paradise Lost - Edward Taylor and Isaac Watts - Dramatic poetry: Dryden's conversation-piece - The language of science and the language of literature, 1700-1740 - Berkeley and the style of dialogue - Yeats, Berkeley and romanticism - Language and poetry in the English enlightenment - Two reviews: Alexander Pope; John Wesley - Christopher Smart: some neglected poems - Goldsmith as monarchist - John Ledyard: the American traveller and his sentimental journeys - The critical principles of William Cowper - Personification - Politics and literature: John Adams and Dr. Johnson - Dionysus in Lyrical Ballds - The poetry of Sir Walter Scott - William Cullen Bryant's 'To a waterfowl' - John Keats: a genius and his limitations - Attending to Landor - Browning and modernism
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
