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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Poetry, 18th century"”.
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Parts and Wholes in Long Non-narrative Poems of the Eighteenth Century
This dissertation examines early-eighteenth-century understandings of literary length in order to shed new light on the structures of three long non-narrative poems of the period, James Thomson’s *The Seasons*, Mark Akenside’s *The Pleasures of Imagination* and Edward Young’s *Night Thoughts*. …
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Resurrecting the Anonymous: An Introduction To Mary Steele, the Author of Danebury and The Power of Friendship, A Tale with Two Odes by a Young Lady
… Nonconformist background played in shaping her poetry.
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Appropriated Voices: William Blake’s “The Little Black Boy” and British Antislavery Poetry
<p>British antislavery poetry in the late 1700s is well characterized by the first stanza of William Blake’s poem “The Little Black Boy” when his black speaker says “o! my soul is white; … But I am black as if bereav’d of light” (2-4). These statements that seem to exclude each other exemplify the …