Poetry from 1660 to 1780: Civil War, Restoration, Revolution

Robert DeMaria, Jr., Duncan Wu

Wiley, Sep 13, 2002 - Literary Criticism - 192 pages

This concise collection of poetry from 1660-1789 offers readers authoritative texts of the central works of the age.

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• Provides readers with authoritative texts of key poems from 1660-1789.
  
• Focuses on those works most widely taught at schools and universities.
  
• Offers students an accessible digest of the poetry of the period.
  
• Demonstrates the range of poetry written between the restoration of the monarchy and the beginnings of the Romantic movement.

About the author

Robert DeMaria Jr. is Henry Noble MacCracken Professor of English at Vassar College.

Duncan Wu is a Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford, and University Lecturer in English Literature.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Poetry from 1660 to 1780: Civil War, Restoration, Revolution; Blackwell Essential Literature
• Editors: Robert DeMaria, Jr., Duncan Wu
• Publisher: Wiley, 2002
• ISBN: 0631229817, 9780631229810
• Length: 192 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh